Re: [xml-dev] more on "subelement signicance"

[Seairth Jacobs <seairth@seairth.com>]

From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
> It is still *useful* in that it is a well-formed construction
> independent of position in the tree or location in a document
> or namespace.  That is of limited use but real.  It might
> require extra-XML knowledge for example, but spiders that
> troll the net doing indexing might only care about meta tags
> (again, limited but possible).

This makes sense to me.

> So cases exist for which simply knowing <a href="stuff" >
> is useful.  Context is usually important but the
> rule as stated is too narrow.


Okay.  What is missing or how exactly is it too narrow?  Give me your
version of the statement that would satisfy your understanding.

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Seairth Jacobs
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