Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Rick Jelliffe makes a pertinent observation offline:
>
> "In my old book, SGML & XML Cookbook, I have some pages on Yourden and
> Constantine's notions of Cohesion and Coupling. In their software
> engineering terms, it is good
> for a system designer to maximise cohesion while minimizing coupling. They
> are Ying and Yang, so any
> discussion of one without the other is likely to be futile."
>
> Comments?
>
Question:
Is cohesion maximized when the XML structure is flat and uses attributes
to logically connect or is it maximized when the structure is nested
hierarchically?
-Rob
> len
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