[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: XML Conversion

  • From: Len Bullard <cbullard@h...>
  • To: jess_nemis@i...
  • Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 09:51:45 -0600

xml conversion requirement in uk
jess_nemis@i... wrote:
> 
>      Now my question is: is it really necessary to tag all items, say, in a
>      bibliographic reference, 

The idea is to tag that which you want to identify later by logical 
location if the logical structure is the means for establishing a 
persistent identity.

In effect, XML does not care how much tagging you use. 
You have to determine the requirements of the information in the 
dimensions in which that information participates and by which it 
may be referenced.  A reference by unambigous name value is the 
easiest.  Having the logical structure and the name it provides 
may not be optimal for other processes/dimensions.  You can 
use non-name link and location types such as counting in a 
text string (eg, split) but as the complexity of naming decreases, 
there is usually a complementary increase in the complexity 
of processing to locate a unique item.  Uniqueness and 
persistence are the requirements for identity.

It is a level of detail issue.

len



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...)



PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!

Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced!

Buy Stylus Studio Now

Download The World's Best XML IDE!

Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today!

Don't miss another message! Subscribe to this list today.
Email
First Name
Last Name
Company
Subscribe in XML format
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
 

Stylus Studio has published XML-DEV in RSS and ATOM formats, enabling users to easily subcribe to the list from their preferred news reader application.


Stylus Studio Sponsored Links are added links designed to provide related and additional information to the visitors of this website. they were not included by the author in the initial post. To view the content without the Sponsor Links please click here.

Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Trademarks
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member
Stylus Studio® and DataDirect XQuery ™are products from DataDirect Technologies, is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. © 2004-2013 All Rights Reserved.