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On 12/02/2008, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...> wrote: > In any case, my proposal is _just_ subsetting, not redesign. It would be interesting to categorise what constitues Good XML and Bad XML. If there's a concensus and clear distinction between the two give the Good XML a name, call it an XML Pattern to encourage its use and the subset is born :0) The poeple on this list must have come across some real abuses of XML over the years... - use of defaulted values, especially namespaces! (surely the worst out of the lot) - declaring the same namespace twice eg <root xmlns="abc.com" xmlns:abc="abc.com"><abc:elem>... - over zealous use of cdata sections (around every text node for example) - double escaping &#160; to get around encoding issues - just using <propery name="elem">content</property> for everything - wedging in extra content using delimiters: <elem category="category::subcategory"> cheers -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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