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At 2:50 PM +0100 3/5/02, Eric van der Vlist wrote: ><snippet-from-another-answer> >Let's take a simple example... I have a text only element: > ><ns1:foo>This is a simple example.</ns1:foo> > >If I extend this example to include a semantic element to identify >"simple" as an adjective: > ><ns1:foo>This is a <ns2:adj>simple</ns2:adj> example.</ns1:foo> > >I am changing a text leaf node into a mixed content including 2 text >nodes separated by a child element and this will likely break 90+% of >the existing applications. > Yes. However, XPath and XSLT based applications will process this correctly without blinking because this hasn't changed the string value of the ns1:foo element. The more I learn about XPath and XSLT the more I'm amazed by them. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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