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Sean McGrath scripsit: > [John Cowan] > >I happened to know that the element always appeared on a single > >line of the file: the start tag, the character data, the end tag. > > How could you possibly know that? Because the documents were 100% generated by a single program whose behavior was entirely predictable. I should have mentioned this in my original post. > Later on in your post you say that this processing > mode is "(sufficiently) reliable". Sorry, no use > to me. I do medical systems. I do e-commerce systems. > "Nearly right" equates to plain wrong in these > environments. "Sufficient" means "sufficient to the circumstances." In this case, 100% is both necessary and possible. > John, you are one of this lists gurus on XML. I am > missing something here right? *blush* It's sort of the same point I've been making with RDF: the fact that RDF has lots of flexibilities doesn't mean that *your* metadata specification has to exploit them. It can be far less general, but if you design it to be RDF-compliant, then general purpose RDF tools will also be able to handle it. Similarly, just because XML 1.0 is a highly flexible format doesn't mean that all that flexibility *must* be allowed for. When you know what you are getting, you can use faster, less flexible processing models. -- John Cowan cowan@c... I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
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