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On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 03:51:11PM +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > > From: David Megginson <david@m... > > >In SGML, you have to write a special program to act on the information > >in the data attributes (nothing does this out of the box); in XML, you > >have to write a special program to act on the PUA. > > Huh? OmniMark allows access to data attributes just as easily as element > attributes (http://www.omnimark.com/develop/om40/doc/concept/646.htm), > out of the box. Several CALS-aware tools understand the notations used > in data attributes, e.g., when used for graphics. > > And I dont agree that elements and characters and attributes and > entities should be thought of as interconvertable: search routines look > for character codes--I don't know of any search routines which allow > grepping on data and elements. SIM builds indexes on arbitrary expressions. This allows you to index content, attributes, and even processing instructions if you want. When doing path indexing, a search engine can treat attributes as nodes of the tree rather than special things attached to nodes (one possibility is to treat them as child elements with an '@' in front of the element name). Cheers, Marcelo -- http://www.simdb.com/~marcelo/ 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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