RE: xsl:when element test with number

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Subject: RE: xsl:when element test with number
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:23:23 -0400

At 03:18 PM 10/24/2003, David wrote:

> But why are you packing information into the element name anyway? That's
> what attributes are for.

perhaps but it is common all the same,
(x)html: h1 h2 h3 h4 h5
xmlspec: div1 div2 div3 div4

Common, but archaic! XML Spec probably lifts this from TEI (P3 finalized 1994); XHTML inherits it ultimately from IBM's GML (see http://www.romankoch.ch/capslock/minigml.htm for something about this).

These were systems that could not presume that element sub-classification by parentage (or even by attributes) would be at all easy in the processing layer. Of course, in XSLT this is a piece of cake.

What exactly does this fixed enumeration help with? I've heard it's nice if you're doing markup-wrangling in an editor that doesn't know how to deal with XML syntax -- and that may be so, though somehow many of us manage without -- but you pay an awfully high price for this in terms of flexibility, on several layers (user interfaces, stylesheets, complexity/adaptability of models).

Just my $0.02 worth, being spilled here on a non-XSL issue. :->

Cheers,
Wendell


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