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Re: Weird Results in XML

From: Pavel Lepin <p.lepin@-------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 2/4/2008 5:14:00 PM


Joseph Kesselman <keshlam-nospam@c...> wrote in
<47a72662$1@kcnews01>:
> Pavel Lepin wrote:
>> I would recommend investigating your XML provider to see
>> whether it would be possible to convince it to use
>> IDs/IDREFs for references instead of this abomination.
> 
> I don't know that I'd call it an abomination... but yes,
> ID/IDREF (or key/keyref if you're working with schemas) is
> a more common way of referencing locations within a single
> document.

Well, I'm thinking in terms of XSLT processing, as the OP
seemed to, - and we still don't have first-class XPath
expressions, even in XSLT2.

Besides, I think this particular application (using, as you
said, EXSLT for example) is a can of worms better left
unopened. For one thing, it's not humanly possible to
preserve the references of this kind if we're doing
anything non-trivial with the input document; while the
same task is largely a no-brainer using IDs/IDREFs.

-- 
<>There is no phenotype</>


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