Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - design pattern for nested xml? [Thread Next] Re: design pattern for nested xml?To: NULL Date: 8/4/2009 3:14:00 AM On 3 Aug, 20:23, lawpoop <lawp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have two questions about the 'best' way to design an xml document. For your example, I wouldn't use XML, I'd go straight to RDF, RDF Schema and maybe even OWL. Your offices aren't a "tree", they're a graph (mulltiple roots, not a simple branching tree). XML is poor at these. Your identifier structure is crucial to success here. Use URIs. Typing (as practised by RDFS) would be extremely useful to you. The downside of using RDF is that is does rather restrict the implementation language to Java (or Scala, if you're fashionable!) as that's where the good RDF toolsets are (start by looking at Jena). | ||||||
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