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Re: Is recursive markup good? bad? supported? not supported?

• From: Michael Sokolov <sokolov@ifactory.com>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:12:51 -0500

On 12/10/2011 6:53 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> There doesn't seem to be a lot of people using recursive markup - I received only two examples of schemas containing recursive definitions.
>
We use it for all sorts of stuff; any kind of more-or-less homogeneous 
hierarchy.  In documents, for nested sections, for tables of contents, 
etc.  I think for more tabular transactional data-oriented markup it's 
less useful.

-Mike

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  • Is recursive markup good? bad? supported? not supported?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>