- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 22:02:11 -0400
- To: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Ken Holman writes: >> To accommodate changing namespace URI strings in two of my customers' sites, I just use XML entities: Tricks like this work some of the time. If you had a large database that gradually collected documents from, say, 50 versions of the same vocabulary, you might find it harder to prepare the XQuery that would match on a construct available in all of them. Just because some new version of HTML adds an attribute to the <html:img> tag doesn't mean you want to impact your ability to easily match on <html:p>. For that matter, you may want to easily match on both forms of <html:img>. You can rapidly get to the point where you need a disjunction over 50 forms of the same element name. Not all scenarios involve one document at a time. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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