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Re: [xml-dev] Are subelements significant by themselves?
- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: Seairth Jacobs <seairth@seairth.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:34:14 -0400
Seairth Jacobs wrote:
> Does an element have any useful significance without knowing the elements
> above it? In other words, without knowing anything about the parent
> element(s) of a given child element, is the child element useful for
> anything at all?
Why not? It would make perfect sense to write something that
harvested only xhtml:a elements, ignoring all context.
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