Re: Self reference in an element

Thanks a lot for the responses,

These comments helped me a lot.

Thanks,

Avinash K N

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Mukul Gandhi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Noah,
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Noah Mendelsohn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm not sure I agree with that. It depends on what you're optimizing for,
>> what tools you're using, etc. There are certainly circumstances in which
>> modeling the tree semantics of the information (the hierarchy of
>> departments) directly in the tree of elements is the natural thing to do. It
>> certainly seems to make processing with tools such as XPath & friends much
>> easier.
>
> I thought that the schema I proposed, defined a good *content model*
> (it's likely better normalized than what was proposed originally by
> Avinash).
>
> I agree with your other points.
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> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi
>