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On Dec 13, 2004, at 18:14, Chiusano Joseph wrote: > Oh - I should be clearer. With the approach just above (#1 through #6), > if you wanted to process the XML document to find a particular element > (or set of elements), you would have to use a positional approach > rather > than an approach based on a specific element name. Correct. > If you have optional > elements whose inclusion in an XML document various instance by > instance, the positional approach would break. Correct. This is why such a structure would be restricted to sequential key-value pairs. If you need additional information (for example for a TreeMap [1]), this could be perhaps modeled either as a different element or perhaps by adding a type attribute to the map element. Cheers, PA. [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/TreeMap.html
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