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- From: rev-bob@gotc.com
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: 29 Nov 99 10:50:39 -0500
> > Consider:
> >
> > <element att="val"> <content/> </element>
>
> How about this?
>
> <element <att>val</att>> <content/> </element>
>
> This is for sure not XML/SGML, but it generalizes the recursive
> pattern. If you want an attribute on the attribute, you write:
>
> <element <att <att-of-att>subvalue</att-of-att>>val</att>> ...
This might be the right time to note that the iHTML server-side scripting package
operates in exactly that manner. An actual scrap of code (from my site) looks like:
<iSET sbit=`<iRANDOM dbname="gotc" table="SQLcode">`>
The main bugaboo in using this structure, at least where iHTML is concerned, concerns
quotes. The above works fine, because the back-sq's (a) properly contain the unparsed
iRANDOM tag and (b) do not appear in the data which replaces that tag. However, this
can get really nasty if you're not careful; it helps if you actually break down the recursion
into successive statements.
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