- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:24:06 +0100
- To: "'Jeni Tennison'" <jeni@jenitennison.com>, "'Wyatt Barton'" <hiddenharvest@yahoo.com>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> Just because I'm interested, can you give more details about the
> markup-language design that you're trying to support here?
If you do a direct translation of GEDCOM into XML you get a similar
requirement. GEDCOM uses elements that contain a value followed by
qualifiers, for example
<occupation>baker
<date>10 MAR 1566
<note>unsure which calendar
<author>MHK</author>
<date>10 AUG 2004</date>
</note>
</date>
</occupation>
The obvious answer of puttting the value in another layer of markup:
<occupation><value>baker</value>
<date><value>10 MAR 1566</value>
<note><value>unsure which calendar</value>
<author><value>MHK</value></author>
<date><value>10 AUG 2004</value></date>
</note>
</date>
</occupation>
is pretty ugly, and is excessively verbose when 95% of values have no
qualifier.
Michael Kay
Received on Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:29:05 UTC