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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Joshua E. Smith wrote: > Sure, you can normalize this to: > > <Thing> > <Id>foo</Id> > </Thing> > > But, well.... yuck. This is just... strange. > > Doesn't it strike you as perverse to dive into the sub-elements of an > element to get a handle to the parent? Yes it does. It also requires that the _entire_ element be read in (till its end tag is encountered) just in the case that a child provides details which modify the parent -- in this case, the parent's identifier. ;) Clark 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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