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Re: joining parallel markup

• To: "Peter Hunsberger" <peter.hunsberger@g...>
• Subject: Re: joining parallel markup
• From: "Oleg A. Paraschenko" <olpa@x...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:59:32 +0300
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Hello Peter,

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:25:18 -0600
"Peter Hunsberger" <peter.hunsberger@g...> wrote:

...
> 
> If I understand correctly you are matching only on text nodes and the
> basic textual content is always the same between the two trees?

Yes.

>   If
> so, then in general this cannot be completely defined, there could be
> ambiguity in the resultant element matching.
> 
> Eg, (somewhat artificial):
> 
>     This is a <ol><li><ul><li>problem.</li></ul></li></ol>
> 
>     This is a <li class="bad">problem.</li>

Actually, I think that this trivial example is ambiguous even for human.

> 
> However, I'd guess that in practice this works just fine most of the
> time.  Unfortunately, I don't see any utility for us...

I wonder what is your application domain. Are you implement a sort of a
content management system, or ...?

> 
> --
> Peter Hunsberger
> 


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