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At 12:17 PM 11/17/97 -0500, Joe Lapp wrote: >"Martin Bryan" <mtbryan@s...> wrote: >>This presumes that the "document" is the thing you want to remove. What if: >> >>a) the document was built from a set of entities? >>b) only part of the document consisted of updatable data fields? >> >>The key factor is "what proportion of the data needs to be modified?" >I think I've just discovered that we are both arguing for the same >thing. My point is exactly that the _document_ is not the smallest >unit we care to change. I just meant to point out that because we >care for finer granularity, and because currently no standard exists >for updating at arbitrary granularity, we need a standard. A standard *does* exist for defining the objects you might want to update: the SGML property set (possibly reflected through the DOM). Given this definition, defining operations on it is a simple matter of programming. Or said another way, you don't need a standard for the control language (although it's useful to have one) if you have a standard for the data model to be controlled. Cheers, E. -- <Address HyTime=bibloc> W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer Highland Consulting, a division of ISOGEN International Corp. 2200 N. Lamar St., Suite 230, Dallas, TX 95202. 214.953.0004 www.isogen.com </Address> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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