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Re: The general XML processing problem

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: The general XML processing problem
• From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@e...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:08:52 -0400
• Cc: XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
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Simon,

Simon St.Laurent wrote:

>Mike Champion wrote:
>
>>So, I think I'm with Joe: Documents shouldn't specify how they are to
>>be used, they should be embedded in a process that specifies how
>>specific documents are to be used.  Even the aircraft maintenance
>>manual should be driven by a process that specifies when bits of text
>>are to be validated against what rules; an individual document may be
>>re-used, the schemas evolved, etc. 
>>
>
>What's interesting to me about this discussion is the separation of the
>information in the XML document from the processing it will receive.
>Although the creators and senders of that document may have their own
>expectations about how that document will be processed, there is nothing
>intrinsic to the XML which binds it to particular processing.
>
Curious that the tree syntax of XML (at least if you have "well-formed" 
XML) is not seen as a processing requirement. You can process 
non-"well-formed"  XML documents via SAX (or your MOE) that simply ducks 
the question of why require the tree syntax for validity in the first 
place? Isn't that a processing requirement as well?

Shouldn't processing decide what markup it wants to use and how it wants 
to use it?

<snip>

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
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Society of Biblical Literature
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