On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Carl Lagoze wrote:
> Sigge, As stated in my response to Jane I don't think the extra tag
> (simple-data) is really any aid towards parsing. Since DOM parsers
> treat text as a node anyway inserted an extra parent node really
> doesn't do much. You know this right? Therefore am I not getting
> something that you intended.
I use DOM parsers and XSLT, but also other things, like full-text
retrieval engines. To separate the two branches would make life easier for
quite a few software packages.
> But, probably putting the complex value rooted under another tag may
> make sense. I look forward to reactions of others.
The older I get, the more we agree about things, Carl ;)
Sigge
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