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At 12:12 AM 4/20/01 +0200, Anders W. Tell wrote: >>Or does it bind more tightly to a particular processing environment? >Unfortunatly it is bound to a processing environment. Mainly because there >are to many >syntaxes which are not readily handled by "readable" regular expression or >other usable >declarative technologies. >The mircoparsing binding is just a named mapping to/from a string based >type and an equivalent XML schema. As long as it's just a matter of naming something, that just sounds like additional metadata which may or may not be useful to a particular recipient. Seems (to me) like a reasonable addition to a description of a type. >>Regular expressions don't solve every problem, but I find them attractive >>because of their relative independence from particular platforms and their >>inclusion in XML Schema. >Regular expresssion may be a declarative approach that an handle a number >of useful use cases. >But what is the result after applying one or more reqexps, a xml fragment >or... ? That's what we need to figure out next. I'm leaning toward text fragments with labels - child text nodes with extra properties, in a DOM sense, or just extra information that a program could explore if needed. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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