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Michael Champion wrote: > We had a classically xml-devish thread back in October about the > implications of Shannon's information theory for XML. I must say I > didn't understand much of that thread, but Kurt Cagle has an > intriguing entry in his weblog > http://metaphoricalweb.blogspot.com/2004/12/xml-and-entropy.html that > puts forth some ideas that seem both interesting and somewhat > practical. > > "Entropy is important because it can better clarify the domain at > which it is best to work with a given document. XQuery I think > provides a good case in point here. XQuery supports XPath, and so it > has some of the advantages that XSLT has, but it's not really all that > useful for dealing with documents -- converting a DocBook document > into WordML or vice versa would be impossible in XQuery... What makes this particular transformation impossible in XQuery? Jonathan P.S., I find it hard to convert into WordML with ANY language, but that's another story...I've never grasped the way lists are represented in WordML!
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