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• To: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>
• Subject: Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
• From: Christian Nentwich <christian@s...>
• Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:13:26 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l..., "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
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• Reply-to: Christian Nentwich <christian@s...>

Peter,

you could call that type attribute xsi:type so that the content
gets validated... and retain your element names?

Christian

> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:37:37 +0000, Christian Nentwich
> <christian@s...> wrote:
>> Roger,
>> 
>> let's see:
>>  - The first approach does not scale - it will get too complex when
>>  you then want to reuse your invoice to build a yet larger model. Too
>>  much indirection to resolve.
>>  - The second approach does not impress me at all. It is weakly
>>  typed, not schema validatable, and the tags are not
>>  self-descriptive. Heaven help the support guy who has to pull that
>>  document.

> I think my other replies make it clear that you'd want at least a type
> attribute.  Note, however, if you're building a large complex system
> the issue isn't documents, it's data transport between layers.  Eg,
> for the support person dealing with building a metadata driven GUI the
> second instance is a whole lot easier to deal with than having to code
> for 1000's of individual element names...

> <snip/> 

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