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On jeu, 2005-07-14 at 11:54 -0400, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> regardless, mixed content is not as uncommon or unexpected as many
> people think. It is not an accident. It is not bad form. It is not
> something to be avoided. It is the very natural way to express many
> extremely common constructs when modeling information, including
> so-called data-oriented applications (as if any information content were
> not data).
Well said!
Unfortunately, most people tend to exclude any mixed content from
data-oriented applications and the grammar based schema languages
(including RELAX NG) include restrictions that makes it impossible to
restrict the values of the text nodes in mixed content (that's what I
have tried to explain in my RNG book:
http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/relax-CHP-7-SECT-10.html).
It's a chicken/eggs problem: because data heads don't like mixed
content, their toolbox doesn't support it properly and because their
toolbox doesn't support it properly, they don't like mixed content...
Eric
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