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Re: XML design of ((a and b) or c)

• From: Robin La Fontaine <robin@d...>
• To: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:51:16 +0000

Andrew,

The first approach looks best and is the one that would be obvious to a 
lisp programmer, where this would be:

(or a (and b c))

This scales well for multiple arguments and for different functions. Go 
for it!

Robin

Andrew Welch wrote:
> I've just had to design some XML to model items that can have "and"
> and "or" relationships between each one.
> 
> For example:
> 
> (a and b) or c
> 
> could be designed as:
> 
> <or>
>    <a>
>    <and>
>        <b/>
>        <c/>
>    </and>
> </or>
> 
> another option could be to rely on position:
> 
> <a>
> <and/>
> <b/>
> <or/>
> <c/>
> 
> and another could be model the relationships separately somehow:
> 
> <relationships>
>  <rel ref="r1" type="and">
>    <ent id="a"/>
>    <ent id="b"/>
>  </rel>
>  <rel ref="r2" type="or">
>    <ent id="r1"/>
>    <ent id="c"/>
>  </rel>
> </relationships>
> <a id="a"/>
> <b id="b"/>
> <c id="c"/>
> 
> Each has its own advantages/drawbacks.  Personally I like the first
> technique, although it can get cluttered when there are 10+ items.
> 
> Are there any better ways that I'm missing?
> 
> cheers
> andrew
> 
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    • From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>