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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:44:03 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:17:37 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@
but should use something like
<a id="1"/> ... <b id="2"/> ... <a id="1"/> ... <b id="2"/>
-instead, and then you can reconstruct either of the tags as necessary.
+instead, and then you can reconstruct either of the tags as necessary. This flattened form also allows certain kinds of diff-like reasoning which are much more difficult on trees. An alternative to this, which avoids flattening the markup, is to do:
-;: ''I disagree strongly with that practice
. You are undercutting the purpose of [XML] by flattening the markup
. Instead, you should use attributes to your advantage
.''
+ <foo type="a" partof="1">
... </foo>
+ <foo type="a" partof="1" partof="2"> ... </foo>
+ <foo type="b" partof="1"> ... </foo>
- <foo type="
a" partof="1"> ..
. </foo> <foo type="
a" partof="1" partof="2"> .
.. </foo> <foo type="b" partof="1"> ... </foo>
-
-;: ''Yes
, it's bulkier
. Try
in some way to process markup written with both approaches using
[XSLT
] and you'll notice
the difference
. %%% --AristotlePagaltzis''
+This is bulkier (especially when there are
a very large number of overlapping structures) but much easier to process with [XSLT]
. The choice between these is the subject of
a minor ReligiousWar
. [StuartYeates] is in favour of the former
, [AristotlePagaltzis] in favour of the latter
. The whole problem was solved
in [SGML
] using
the CONCUR feature, which appears never to have been implemented
.
[WellFormed] [XML] differs from [Valid] [XML] in that [Valid] [XML] has been (or could be) checked against a [Schema] or [DTD].
