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On Aug 7, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Robert Koberg<rob@koberg.com> wrote: > >> How do you get/set a start or end tag in an XML context? Do you? > > You don't. Getting and setting are concepts of some programming > languages. They are not concepts that are relevant to XML as XML. They > are not concepts that are relevant to XML as XML. > >> In a DOM (W3, XOM, dom4j, etc) or transformation language (like XSL >> or >> Xquery), there is no concept of a start or end tag. The only place >> a start >> or end tag comes into play is in a SAX style. There they are events >> that can >> be consumed or emitted. > > They aren't in SAX either. The events are named startElement and > endElement for good reason. Well, exactly! So, why define tags the way the wikipedia article (or the w3) does? Why define them at all? That is why I wrote that they should be considered more like events. Though, as you point out, the events would be even better defined as startElement/endElement as they are in SAX. best, -Rob
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