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Evan Lenz wrote: > > Nicolas LEHUEN wrote: > > The correct match path is, to me, the one that goes at least up > > to the first > > global parent element. > > When I want to associate different templates with elements that have the > same name (which Rick, I guess, would never want to do), I use modes rather > than long match patterns. This is more reliable, as I don't have to worry > about new intervening structure (assuming I'm using the built-in rule for > elements). > Modes are a very good fit. You can use them directly in the application or indirectly - as I'm doing - for providing disambiguation to the document for simpler application processing. Nested local types and anonymous complex types make path-based disambiguation complicated. Matthew Fuch's NUNs are probably the simplest approach, but they're still not that simple. They require system thinking, not application thinking. Francis.
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