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

Re: so many options no idea where to begin

• To: xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: so many options no idea where to begin
• From: Rick Jones <rick_jones2@h...>
• Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:16:27 -0700
• Organization: the Unofficial HP
• References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020731070422.02d74330@p...>
• Reply-to: raj@c...
• Sender: raj@t...

"G. Ken Holman" wrote:
> 
> At 2002-07-30 17:24 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> >*) i'm not sure when one "should" use attributes versus a nested element
> 
> Check out http://xml.coverpages.org/elementsAndAttrs.html for a few opinions.

Thanks. This whole thing is beginning to remind me of one of the
backhanded compliments about SCSI - "SCSI is great, there are so many
standards to choose from." :)

> Personally, I'm a big fan of external parsed general entities for the
> management of a single large XML document in many small pieces.  My
> training material is authored in XML and to change one paragraph I need
> only pull a lesson entity into a text editor instead of the entire course.

So, when I want the great big config file, don't try to stitch it
together with statements inside the config file, but "cat" (as it were)
several  smaller files together - with an XSLT? (probably have the wrong
term)

> I do *not* use such constructs for sharing information as fragments between
> multiple XML instances; I use XSLT to extract fragments of an XML document,
> thus keeping every external parsed general entity in a single parsing
> context (set of DTD declarations for entities).
> 
> I hope this helps.

every little bit is a help, thanks,

rick jones
-- 
Wisdom Teeth are impacted, people are affected by the effects of events.
these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :)
feel free to post, OR email to raj in cup.hp.com  but NOT BOTH...

• Follow-Ups:
  • External parsed general entities (was so many options no idea where to begin)
    • From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>

• References:
  • Re: so many options no idea where to begin
    • From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>

• Prev by Date: Re: The BBQ Proposition was Re: Re: URIs,
• Next by Date: OASIS Cosponsors the Forum on Security Standards for Web Services, 26 August, Boston
• Previous by thread: Re: so many options no idea where to begin
• Next by thread: External parsed general entities (was so many options no idea where to begin)
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread