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Thanks.
btw, by strange coincidence I just saw some other .Net config files for the
first time (this time Web.config), as details on
"Server Error in '/' Application."
http://auto.search.msn.com/response.asp?MT=y2net.net&srch=5&prov=&utf8
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
> Sent: 06 March 2003 16:56
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from
> XML?
>
>
> danny666@virgilio.it (Danny Ayers) writes:
> >I'm curious Simon (or anyone) about how you would go about improving
> >the representation of keys & values (or modelling when the solution
> >seems to suggest keys & values).
>
> Most of the key/value situations I've seen have fixed sets of keys, or
> at least as fixed as most markup vocabularies.
>
> So instead of:
>
> <add key="a" value="1"/>
> <add key="b" value="2"/>
>
> I'd prefer something like:
>
> <add>
> <a>1</a>
> <b>2</b>
> </add>
>
> Even where the keys aren't fixed, I still prefer this model. It leaves
> open the prospect of structured values, which are pretty common in the
> hashmaps I work with, and it's not that much harder to process.
>
> It's harder to write a schema for this if you're one of those people who
> insist on nailing everything to the floor, but I guess I have little
> sympathy for those folks. If the information is flexible, the schema
> should keep up, and hiding structure in attribute values seems like a
> lousy hack given XML's focus on labeled structures.
>
> But hey, if it's just a serialization, why should anyone care?
>
> --
> Simon St.Laurent
> Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
> Errors, errors, all fall down!
> http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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