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/ Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com> was heard to say:
| At 02:05 PM 6/6/2003 -0400, G. Ken Holman wrote:
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|>Would mixed content suffice?
|
| I'm not sure. What we generally think of as structured data does not
| use mixed content,
Ahem. Who, exactly, is "we", in this sentence. What *I* think of as
structured data (in the XML world) is pretty near exclusively mixed
content.
| but there are also many documents that do not use
| mixed content.
In what sense are you using the word "document"?
|> Data-oriented data can often be processed entirely with a "pull"
|> model (XSLT or XQuery), while document-oriented mixed content needs
|> to be processed with a "push" model (XSLT template rules).
|
| I wonder if this isn't more an issue of the kind of processing than
| the kind of document. I agree that formatting documents is often best
| done with a push model. Extracting data can be done with either.
| Combining and restructuring data sources is generally best done with a
| pull model.
If you mean "data sources that don't have mixed content", you might be
right. But if you mean data sources with mixed content (and, yes,
people want to combine and restructure that too sometimes) I think
you're entirely wrong about the pull model. Actually, I think the pull
model is way overused even in the data case, but that may largely be a
matter of style as either will suffice in that case.
Be seeing you,
norm
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