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No, I'd say you are getting it. XML Doesn't Care. It is just structured/named data. There are some wrinkles to how that works determined by the context of use (system rules). Modules (even XSLT) that use XML do care. The appropriate structure depends on the module. That is why we brought up USE nodes. It's not just a pointer; it is what is done with the thing pointed to; in the case of a use node, it is copied on render but is one data structure in memory. For that application, pointing is faster than having a duplicate. In X3D, deep nesting slows down the application. Put a lot of named primitives (spheres, boxes, etc.) into a scene and nest them, and the frame rate will drop to sub 4fps rates; say, crawls. Good authoring systems enable this to be optimized and flattened into more efficient representations like indexed face sets. The cost: it's a one way conversion because information is lost. The gain: fidelity to real time. A more interesting coupling/cohesion study might be the effect of certain kinds of standards for schema development. For example, the UBL naming standard is itself, 112 pages long. That ripples across a lot of other standards. Is coupling to that enhancing the cohesion of the standards that couple to it? len From: Robert Koberg [mailto:rob@k...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Cohesion and coupling: ... > and of course, the ultimate expression of homophilic principles, the Law of > Demeter: > "Only talk to your friends." For programmers, there are lots of articles on > this one. > > http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/demeter-intro.html I am having trouble applying OO to XML, but I read this from the above article: "The Law of Demeter says that if I need to request a service of an objects sub-part, I should instead make the request of the object itself and let it propagate this request to all relevant sub-parts, thus the object is responsible for knowing its internal make-up instead of the method that uses it." To me, if I have a nested structure in an XML instance and using XSL on that I apply-templates (flow through the instance doc) and only do what is in the XML. If I come across something that is a reference to something else I can go out, get it, apply-templates on it and continue where I left off. If I have a flat structure in an instance doc I have to assume where things go and place them in a more rigid way. Am I just not getting it?
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