Chris Chiasson <>, 2006-10-28 15:17 -0500:
> that's invalid xml
Actually, it's not well-formed XML. Anyway, I think that's exactly
the point was Elliotte was making. If you have content that
requires topics to cross section boundaries, you can't represent
it XML, because it violates XML's well-formedness contraints.
--Mike
> On 10/27/06, Elliotte Harold <> wrote:
> >Bob Stayton wrote:
> >> Hi Elliotte,
> >> I'm not clear what you meant when you said that XML can't handle this
> >> idea of assembling topics using a mapping element. Can you elaborate?
> >>
> >
> >Topics can cross section boundaries, and sections can cross topic
> >boundaries. Hence overlap. e.g.
> >
> ><topic>
> > blah blah blah
> > blah blah blah
> > blah blah blah
> > <section>
> > blah blah blah
> > blah blah blah
> > blah blah blah
> > </topic
> > blah blah blah
> > blah blah blah
> > blah blah blah
> > blah blah blah
> > </section>
