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 OK, I was thinking of data-oriented XML documents, not document-oriented for which my affirmation is less certain. However, what about putting a <a href="uri"> in the <head> part of an HTML document ? Will it be processed ? I don't think so. A browser processes its data in a context-sensitive way, like many other programs. I agree with you that context-insensitive processing may not be negligible, your simple example is a proof. But why make decisions on the interest of local elements with only this model in mind ? Regards, Nicolas >-----Message d'origine----- >De : Kian-Tat Lim [mailto:ktl@k...] >Envoye : mardi 28 aout 2001 12:08 >A : 'xml-dev@l...' >Objet : Re: Enlightenment via avoiding the T-word > > >Nicolas LEHUEN wrote: >> I think that context-independant processing of structured >data is VERY rare. > > <a href="uri"> </a> can be and is processed >context-independently >every day by millions of users/computers. (Not just browsers of both >graphical and text-based types, but also spiders and other crawlers.) > > Just today I was working on a program that extracts data from >(non-XML) "tagged" files. Different records in these files may contain >different fields. The program only has to understand the equivalents >of start and end tags for the "elements" it is interested in, >regardless >of the other information in the record. > > One might argue that word processors perform various kinds of >context-independent processing, though their data is usually >very weakly >structured. > > Admittedly, all of these examples are probably much smaller than >the sum total of all processing being done in EDI systems, SQL >databases, >etc., but I don't think they're negligible, and, particularly in the >document world, I think they are representative of future growth paths. >(In other words, I'd like to see more context-independent processing of >structured data, as I believe it leads to more openness, reuse, and >hence efficiency.) > >-- >Kian-Tat Lim, ktl@k..., UTF-7: +Z5de+pBU- > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an >initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > >The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription >manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > 
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