RE: [xml-dev] Are subelements significant by themselves?

[Nicolas LEHUEN <nicolas.lehuen@ubicco.com>]

We've been discussing about this point a month ago or so. I suggest Seairth
to make a search in the list archive with keywords "context local global
element".

Regards,
Nicolas

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>De : mrossi@csc.com [mailto:mrossi@csc.com]
>Envoye : mercredi 3 octobre 2001 17:39
>A : xml-dev
>Objet : Re: [xml-dev] Are subelements significant by themselves?
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>Unfortunately, the answer to all these questions is a big "it depends".
>Depending on what your app needs to do with your data, it may 
>need to know
>about the element's parent. It may need to know about the 
>element's whole
>ancestory, or the entire hierarchy in which it's contained. On 
>the other
>hand I can think of plenty of apps that would be perfectly 
>useful simply
>extracting the element itself.
>
>Michael A. Rossi
>Computer Sciences Corporation
>mailto:mrossi@csc.com
>856-983-4400 x4911
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>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?
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>What if the child element belonged to a different namespace 
>than the parent
>element(s)?  Would an application that "understands" that 
>namespace be able
>to process the child element without knowing anything about the parent
>element(s)?
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>If there any applications of this out there, can some of them 
>be mentioned?
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>Seairth Jacobs
>seairth@seairth.com
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