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

[Seairth Jacobs <seairth@seairth.com>]

Can you name some apps, even if they are examples?  The basic criteria is
that the app is looking for a subelement without knowing anything else about
the document.

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Seairth Jacobs
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Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Are subelements significant by themselves?


> 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
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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?
>
> 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)?
>
>
> 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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