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Re: [A bit more] Re: writing good xml

• To: Chiusano Joseph <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Subject: Re: [A bit more] Re: writing good xml
• From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:46:40 -0500
• Cc: Ronald Kent Gibson <Kent.Gibson@i...>, "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
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/ "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...> was heard to say:
| I also meant to recommend an additional approach:
|
| You might want to consider using XML schema list types - for example:
|
| <xsd:simpleType name="listOfSetFlags">
|   <xsd:list itemType="xsd:integer"/>
| </xsd:simpleType>
|
| Where the list of flags that are set would be represented in an XML
| document as follows:
|
| <listOfSetFlags>1 4 8 12</listOfSetFlags>

Assuming that the bits mean things like "serif" and "smallcaps",
as the original example seemed to hint, I think I'd be inclined to
make it a list of keywords:

<listOfSetFlags>serif italic smallcaps</listOfSetFlags>

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@n...> | Nothing is worth more than this day.--
http://nwalsh.com/            | Goethe

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