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RE: What is the use of non-leafElement' VALUE ?
Title: What is the use of non-leafElement' VALUE ?
What is the BUSINESS/Real-life meaning
of
<para>The hands on the hall-clock pointed to
half-past six in the morning. The house was a country residence in West
Somersetshire, called Combe-Raven. The day was the fourth of March, and the year
was eighteen-hundred and forty-six<footnote>In a letter to his friend
Charles Ward, Collins put the first of many questions ...: 'What
<ital>day</ital> of the <ital>week</ital> was the 4th of
March 1846?... If [it] was a <ital>Saturday</ital> or a
<ital>Sunday</ital>, it won't do for my
purpose.'...</footnote>.</para>
The people who imagine that XML was designed for business
(or that business is the same as real life) probably also imagine that English
was designed for business.
The M in XML stands for Markup: XML is first and foremost a
language for adding markup to text.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Hi, I have one generic question on XML
structure [XML element]. If an XML element represents an object then element's attributes would
be properties of that object. Then any subelement [be it leaf or non-leaf] would represent the
hierarchy of the objects [containment]. If the element is a leaf node then that
element's value will be meaning full. BUT if the element is not a leaf node then what is the
BUSINESS/Real-life meaning of having value in that element ? My understanding is that an element's attributes and its sub-elements
are enough to represent an object.
Example : <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <employmentDetails> Some value <EmployerID>097</EmployerID>
<EmploymentStatus>Active</EmploymentStatus>
<AnnualCompensation>$100000</AnnualCompensation>
</employmentDetails>
What is the business meaning of
allowing element value for non-leaf element in XML W3C
standards.
Thanks in advance for sharing your
thoughts/inputs/ideas.
Regards, RNS
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