RE: [xsl] need help explaining one data structure over another

Subject: RE: [xsl] need help explaining one data structure over another
From: "Matthew L. Avizinis" <mla@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:45:29 -0400
Yes, reasonable.

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> Peter
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> 
> 
> > Help me out [...] an please give me [...] a good argument for 
> why system 2
> > is advantageous over system 1.  
> 
> Sorry, I'm going to also vote for system 1.  Having done a lot of generic
> XSLT I definitely prefer an XML input stream that a) does not make any
> assumptions about how it will be processed; and b) uses XML structure to
> indicate hierarchy and not element names.
> 
> In your case, argument d) would seem to be particularly relevant; you've
> already got a perfectly reasonable way to indicate the 
> relationship of each
> item to each other (the XML hierarchy) why would you also want to 
> invent an
> artificial naming convention to duplicate the same information?
> 
> 
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