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• Subject: Re: Idea - std. non-flat <g><e/></g> syntax
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:53:39 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <42D47FFE.76E12730@e...> (message from bill palmer on Tue,12 Jul 2005 21:44:14 -0500)
• References: <42CF2B25.88A668F4@e...> <cc159a4a05071020321c5ba644@m...> <42D21566.22401AAC@e...> <cc159a4a05071107167d837b59@m...> <42D44391.220B9E3@e...> <200507122308.AAA29851@p...> <42D47FFE.76E12730@e...>

> Going the other way might require reordering the groups of records to place all with
> identical attributes together. Or the stylesheet could explicitly state the matching
> attributes that cause a <g><e/></g> block and that would be pretty easy. What is
> interesting is that users would do this grouping themselves ... they would do it as a
> matter of convenience when creating the <g><e/></g> blocks.
> 
> The ultimate improvement of your example is an identity transform copying everything
> verbatim except this expansion of the <g><e/></g>. That is the stylesheet that would
> substantially implement what I am proposing for files preprocessed against the
> stylesheet. How easy is that? :)
> 

Both of those (which would each only require a line or two of xslt) are
day to day faq questions on xsl-list Perhaps you should move this there,
or see the usual reference for grouping on Jeni's site
http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/

Grouping and flattening of hierarchical data is just what XML is all
about, so I'm not sure I understand this thread really. I think you are
proposing that the element names be hard coded into applications but
that would be going against the whole point of XML which is a meta
language for defining vocabularies. Specfic vocabularies such as xhtml
have fixed element names but XML has (almost) no fixed names at all.

David

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