Subject: RE: Matching elements with a name specified by an attribute value
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:20:15 +0100
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> You say that what I'm trying to do is bad document design.
> ... Essentially, the names of the data elements do identify
> types, and are all different...
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> <layout layout-id="block1">
> <layout_item data_element="reference"/>
> <layout_item data_element="trade_date"/>
> <layout_item data_element="ccy"/>
> <layout_item data_element="amount"/>
> </layout>
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> <trade layout-ref="block1">
> <reference>12345</reference>
> <trade_date>23-Oct-2000</trade_date>
> <ccy>GBP</ccy>
> <amount>1,500.00</amount>
> </trade>
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Yes, that looks more sanitary. Be aware though that such structures (which
contain implicit links between data objects and metadata objects) are not
well-supported by standards such as XML namespaces or XSLT itself.
Mike Kay
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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