Re: XSL-optimized DTDs (Was: Re: Mixed content: selecting current context w/out child)

[Marcus Carr <mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.


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Marcus Carr                      email:  mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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