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Hi. > I would claim that if it's possible to write XSLT stylesheets that > losslessly convert between two formats in both directions, then the two > formats are isomorphic and the entropy does not change from an instance > document in one format to the instance document in the other format. > > Isn't this akin to saying that the entropy is in the information itself, not in the markup? There's no question that very complex information can be represented by very simple markup. I don't see anyway to make general statements about the value added (or obscured) by a given level of markup complexity, especially without the context of an actual requirement. ----->Nathan -- .:||:._.:||:._.:||:._.:||:._.:||:._.:||:._.:||:._.:||:._.:||:._.:||:._.:||:.
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