Re: RE: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
Peter Flynn <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.devel |
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| Organization | Silmaril Consultants |
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On 30/05/2022 20:24, Roger L Costello wrote: > Hi Peter, > > If I understand correctly, you are saying that in the following XML > document: [...] > one might want to insert additional markup around the quoted sentences. > Something like this: > > <l>A’ was a merry man—took up the child:</l> > <l><quote>“Yea,”</quote> quoth he, <quote>“dost thou fall upon thy > face?</l> > <l>Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;</l> > <l>Wilt thou not, Jule?”</quote> and, by my holidame,</l> > <l>The pretty wretch left crying and said <quote>“Ay.”</quote></l> Yes. > So the overlapping problem is this: Sometimes it's desirable to allow > start-tag/end-tag pairs that are not properly nested. > > Is that right? No. I don't see that that changing the current containment model would be practicable. https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/topics/Concurrent_Markup~Overlap.html has a long list of papers which examine various solutions. Peter _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: [email protected] subscribe: [email protected] List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php