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>>Given the above, I'd say your heading toward reinventing XSLT (but without using any of those messy namespaces)...<< I am envisioning that this rearrangement of the information depends on XSLT or equivalemnt. In my example of <record>s, and from the stand point of XSLT, I imagine a template with select="e" which copies each <e/> to a <record/> plus all the attributes on <g><gx><gi>... So I do not see it as a coding method like XSLT, for defining how to transform arbitrary xml tags to new forms, but it is rather one particular obvious transform always from <e/> tags. The xml preparer is allowed to defer the technical implementation of the transform to the recipient of the file. In my specific example, we might expect the recipient expands to <record>s before doing validation etc. If it is a compression idea, then it is a persistent form of compression residing within the otherwise identical flat xml. The "compressed" file is the created file in step one, rather than creating a file and then compressing. As for namespaces I think we would need to use something like <GE:e> and <GE:g> tags in practice. regards, bill p Peter Hunsberger wrote: > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
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