Subject: Re: XSL-optimized DTDs (Was: Re: Mixed content: selecting cu From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:43:48 -0500 |
At 10:34 AM 3/15/99 +0000, Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >One way of dealing with this, which I'm not advocating is necessarily the >best way, merely another tool in the kit, is when one has a basic logical >unit represented as a tag, who's general use is straightforward, but that >may convey extra meaning underster certain circumstance, is to extend the >logical unit into several using attributes. Yes, that's a good quick-and-dirty approach -- another tool in the kit, as you say. And with XSL match/select syntax and transformation, the values of attributes need be no more invisible to an application than PCDATA element content. But I've never been able to get past my sense that it's, well, cheating to "hide" content and structural information in attributes. There's nothing structural about attributes as such; they're merely decoration for the actual document scaffolding. So if a thing (like a name, in your example) may logically be said to consist of two or more sub-things (like givenname and surname), I think one must swallow hard and opt to codify this structurual logic in the DTD. Of course, as I said to Marcus in another message on this thread, my intention with FlixML is to make it "complete" rather than "bullet-proof." The breakdown of a person's name into given and surname pieces seems like a natural enough extension, but doesn't strictly speaking apply to names in many non-Western cultures (especially when one thinks of "given name" as a synonym for "first name"). Rather than deal with all that, in FlixML I just ducked the whole issue <cough/>. >Just my 2p worth :) And thanks to the miracle of compound interest, it's already doubled in value. :) ============================================================= John E. Simpson | It's no disgrace t'be poor, simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx | but it might as well be. | -- "Kin" Hubbard XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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