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- From: "Clark C. Evans" <clark.evans@manhattanproject.com>
- To: "Joshua E. Smith" <jesmith@kaon.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 04:20:58 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Joshua E. Smith wrote:
> Sure, you can normalize this to:
>
> <Thing>
> <Id>foo</Id>
> </Thing>
>
> But, well.... yuck. This is just... strange.
>
> Doesn't it strike you as perverse to dive into the sub-elements of an
> element to get a handle to the parent?
Yes it does. It also requires that the _entire_ element be read
in (till its end tag is encountered) just in the case that a child
provides details which modify the parent -- in this case, the
parent's identifier.
;) Clark
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