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![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - RE: [xml-dev] What is coupling? [Was: 3 XML Design Principles] [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] What is coupling? [Was: 3 XML Design Principles]To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@----------.---> Date: 2/1/2005 6:31:00 PM 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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