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At 04:40 PM 6/6/2003 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: >/ Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...> was heard to >say: >| At 02:05 PM 6/6/2003 -0400, G. Ken Holman wrote: >| >|>Would mixed content suffice? >| >| I'm not sure. What we generally think of as structured data does not >| use mixed content, > >Ahem. Who, exactly, is "we", in this sentence. What *I* think of as >structured data (in the XML world) is pretty near exclusively mixed >content. Both you and Ken caught this. I have a real vocabulary problem with different communities. I was using the term "structured" as I believe it is understood in the semi-structured community, but posting to an XML list. Sorry for the confusion. When my daughters were young children in Germany, they went to what is called a pre-school in America, but which is called a Kindergarten in Germany. After that, they went to kindergarten, which is called Vorschule in German - and which literally translates to pre-school. >| I wonder if this isn't more an issue of the kind of processing than >| the kind of document. I agree that formatting documents is often best >| done with a push model. Extracting data can be done with either. >| Combining and restructuring data sources is generally best done with a >| pull model. > >If you mean "data sources that don't have mixed content", you might be >right. But if you mean data sources with mixed content (and, yes, >people want to combine and restructure that too sometimes) I think >you're entirely wrong about the pull model. Actually, I think the pull >model is way overused even in the data case, but that may largely be a >matter of style as either will suffice in that case. I'd rather have this part of the discussion with a set of concrete use cases. I *have* integrated data sources that use mixed content with XQuery, but we may be thinking of different kinds of integration. Jonathan
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