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On 7/8/05, bill palmer <palmer@e...> wrote: > Sorry if this is an old idea. The more I have experimented with the idea > recently, the more compelling it seems. > > What if repetitive fragments of xml had default non-flat format? Perhaps > a "standard" non-flat syntax would be always recognized and flattened in > a manner understood by all processors. Depending on which direction you want to take this idea you've either reinvented basic compression or XSLT. > > Essentially a block of flat records would be entered as <e/> leaf nodes > of nested <g/> outer elements. All attributes on the <g/> elements would > be repeated on the <e/> elements. > <snip type="explanation of the above"/> Given the above, I'd say your heading toward reinventing XSLT (but without using any of those messy namespaces)... -- Peter Hunsberger
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