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Trevor Nash wrote: >>I can not influence the content of this source document. > > I've lost count of the number of times I have seen this, most > commonly with grouping type questions. Anybody got a theory as to > why this happens? There must be thousands of person-hours being > wasted. When people design markup languages, they can't always predict every use the information in the XML documents will be put to, plus they don't necessarily know the strengths/limitations of every method of processing the document. (It would be straightforward to sum amounts with units using DOM or SAX, for example.) Does anyone know of a set of guidelines for designing markup languages for processing with XSLT? If not, it could be a useful resource to put together somewhere. Things like: - keep numbers and units separate - be consistent in case use in attribute/element values - use namespaces to embed HTML in XML, not CDATA sections Any others? Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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