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Original Message From: "Paul Downey"
> On 15 Jul 2005, at 08:24, Pete Cordell wrote:
>
>> The example that Elliotte gave earlier (<p>This is <strong>very</strong>
>> important</p>) could possibly have been handled with an <xs:any
>> namespace='xhtml'> construct. ...
>
> For me, I really like the notion of being able to write an XML document,
> not necessarily XHTML, which contains information to be gleaned using
> XPath and XSLT. Mixed is where it's at.
> ...
> Whilst I might be willing to give up all sorts of bits of a schema
> language just to nurse-maid users of data binding tools into having a
> better time, I'm loathed to give up mixed given that turns my documents
> inside out.
>
> Eric's Catch 22 is the problem here, and it's a crying shame the data
> binding tools don't make a better fist of preserving the text which
> surrounds the nuggets of data they're often only interested in.
Being guilty of being a code-head (and a binding one at that - can it get
worse!), I'm keen to know how you'd like us to make a better fist of it.
One way of binding the example of "<p>This is <strong>very</strong>
important</p>" might be to have a class structure that (with any unused
elements ignored) looks like:-
class p
{
string cdata1; // = "This is "
class strong strong;
string cdata2; // = " important"
};
class strong
{
string cdata1; // = "very"
};
as opposed to (ignoring the CDATA):
class p
{
class strong strong;
};
class strong
{
};
or (lumping all the mixed text together):
class p
{
string mixedContent; // = "<p>This is <strong>very</strong>
important</p>"
};
Or do you just decide that binding isn't the right solution in this case, or
a hybrid is required?
Thanks,
Pete.
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