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At 08:33 AM 5/4/98 -0400, David Megginson wrote: >Your point is well-taken, though: fragments of XML documents are often >tightly bound to their context (similar situations would involve >attributes for effectivity, security level, revision status, etc.). But one of the advantages of a hierarchically-structured data representation is the ability to have scopes to which properties apply. If a processor can't at least maintain a stack of the attributes of the ancestors of the current element, it's pretty darn braindead. I mean come on, we have to presume *some* intelligence in processors. Cheers, E. -- <Address HyTime=bibloc> W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer 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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