Subject: Re: XSL-optimized DTDs (Was: Re: Mixed content: selecting current context w/out child) From: Marcus Carr <mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:07:41 +1100 |
John E. Simpson wrote: > Actually, though, I think the more granular/atomic the structure, the more > flexibility downstream -- not just for XSL, but for querying and (yes) data > interchange. For applications, it's easy to extract the structured data you > want, even if apparently overly-nested, and ignore those portions of the > structure that you don't... but harder (and needing more hard-coding and > application-specific intelligence) to *add* structure to the source where > it's no better than implicit. I agree completely - finding the correct degree of granularity is indeed the trick. It's true that it's much easier to ignore unnecessary structure than it is to imply non-existent tags, but any markup that can't be implied is expensive - if it can be implied, then it might be of only marginal value. -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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