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>(1) if you need to select or manipulate all the titles as a group
>(3) if you need to know when all the titles have finished, e.g for
> formatting purposes (this is very close to (1) in practice)
the data is being processed with XSLT 2 hence I can use xsl:for-each-group
to acheive this in the rare cases where it happens. I think your other
points balance each other out for our purposes - ie it is closer to how we
think about the data but it makes generic software harder.
thanks for your help.
>From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
>To: tom tom <tomxsllist@hotmail.com>
>CC: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Xml internationalization design
>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 13:34:16 -0400
>
>On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:31:27AM +0100, tom tom wrote:
>[...]
> > The latter will lead to much less verbose XML but the titles tags aren't
> > wrapped up in a single extensible parent. I would be very grateful if
> > someone could point me to somewhere which advises on best practice here.
>
>It depends... :-)
>Your approach is a good one in either case. Reasons for a wrapper
>might include
>(1) if you need to select or manipulate all the titles as a group
>(2) if you have multiple sets of titles that must be distinguished
>(3) if you need to know when all the titles have finished, e.g for
> formatting purposes (this is very close to (1) in practice)
>(4) if it is closer to the way you think about the information
>(5) if it helps you write generic software to process the data.
>
>Consider an author element, where the order of first/last name might
>be different in Japan, or where the author might be spelt differently,
> <author lang="en">St. Paul</author>
> <author lang="it">S Paulo</author>
>or whatever. But you might have a document with two adjacent
>author elements, and in that case you'll certainly need a wrapper
>of some kind -- same with two adjacent paragraph elements.
>
>Liam
>
>--
>Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
>http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
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