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The XML in this example isn't as perverse (i.e boneheaded) as in your
original claims. Even then I only see two answers
A.) recursively filter for only the items you care about (my stylesheet
and query examples)
B.) process XML based on agreed upon processing rules
Trying to come up with a "generic" mechanism for processing XML in such
situations seems like a fools errand.
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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> dareo@microsoft.com (Dare Obasanjo) writes:
> >The best practice is not to design your XML in such a
> boneheaded manner
> >in the first place not coming up with overcomplicated rules
> of how to
> >process it.
>
> I think for the most part that I agree with you, but let's
> take a specific recent case
> (http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1010.html) and see whether
> we agree on what's "boneheaded" here.
>
> Does it make sense to design a vocabulary such that:
>
> <item xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";>
> <title>My Summer Vacation</title>
> <description>On my summer vacation I went to...</description>
>
> <link>http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/RESTLog.py/4</link>
> <dc:date>2002-10-28T22:18:53-05:00</dc:date>
> </item>
>
> is considered equivalent (even when you're not using SOAP) to:
>
> <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";>
> <s:Body>
> <item xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";>
> <title>My Summer Vacation</title>
> <description>On my summer vacation I went to...</description>
>
> <link>http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/RESTLog.py/4</link>
> <dc:date>2002-10-28T22:18:53-05:00</dc:date>
> </item>
> </s:Body>
> </s:Envelope>
>
> We can just ignore the s:Enveloper and s:Body tags, right? Or can we?
> What's over-complicated here? (The unqualified nature of the
> item vocabulary raises another nice set of questions about
> what is complicated or not, but that's another issue.)
>
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