RE: [xsl] need help explaining one data structure over another

["Matthew L. Avizinis" <mla at gleim dot com>]

I guess I am just trying to figure out why DocBook went to such trouble to
have a whole bunch of index terms -- they must have had some reason for
using primary, secondary, indexdiv, etc., right?

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Hunsberger,
> Peter
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 9:57 AM
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> Subject: RE: [xsl] need help explaining one data structure over another
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>
>
> > Help me out [...] an please give me [...] a good argument for
> why system 2
> > is advantageous over system 1.
>
> Sorry, I'm going to also vote for system 1.  Having done a lot of generic
> XSLT I definitely prefer an XML input stream that a) does not make any
> assumptions about how it will be processed; and b) uses XML structure to
> indicate hierarchy and not element names.
>
> In your case, argument d) would seem to be particularly relevant; you've
> already got a perfectly reasonable way to indicate the
> relationship of each
> item to each other (the XML hierarchy) why would you also want to
> invent an
> artificial naming convention to duplicate the same information?
>
>
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