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Thanks Mike, for useful suggestions ... It helps me ... On Feb 19, 2008 4:22 AM, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote: > > I need a 1-to-1 mapping between file system directory/file > > names and XML names. I am generating a meta data (the XML > > output) to be used by another tool (which physically > > sees/processes the directories/files and consults the XML > > meta data for some processing). > > You don't need it, you want it. > > Generally it's best if element and attribute names are names of types, not > of instances. If you've got 23 files in a directory you want to represent > that with 23 <file> elements containing different data, not with 23 elements > having different element names. The limitations on choice of characters in > element names are only one of the reasons for preferring this design. > > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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