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- From: David Wang <dwang@mitre.org>
- To: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:06:43 -0500
> If you mean
>
> <foo><bar>baz</bar></foo> <==> <foo bar="baz">
>
> that's right: AFs don't provide for this. (There a number of "good"
> reasons, but that's a separate debate. I'm sorely tempted to offer a
> reason or two, but I desist...)
Oh, give in to the temptation! :-) I'm sorely trying to understand why
this was not allowed in AF. Is it because of its emphasis on extraction
of information that such associations are not really useful or ?
> > and the other half is the pruning/reordering the morphologically
> > fungible parts. Is there anything I'm grossly missing?
>
> The two halves are the same thing. The rubric is attribute-based
> processing (for which, btw, plenty of precedents exist, e.g. CSS
> styling based on the CLASS attribute), in terms of which generic
> identifiers ("tagnames") are values morphologically.
Ok, I agree that renaming isn't the point of AFs; I see what you are
saying, that the names are simply identifiers that allow content to be
freely "pruned/reordered" around. Ahhh...
> You haven't missed anything:)
Cool. Sanity checks out. :-)
/David
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