Hi, It's a little off-topic, but since this subject was already discussed here, I permit myself to raise a question that is connected to the discussion:
I've been looking for an XML schema or DTD that will fit the needs of a hierarchical content system. Most of the content that people face, are hierarchical, whether that content is a web site, a mailing list with threads, a web forum, a newsgroup, a project, a modular structure of a software, a product tree, filesystem, etc. I was amazed by the fact that all the scemas and DTDs that I've found so far, were not really hierarchical, but flat, with pointers and cross references to implement hierarchy. I.e. when there are 4 instances of the same node - "granpa", "dad", "me", and "son" - I would expect "son" to be an internal level within "me", "me" within "dad", and "dad" within "granpa"; But what I found was that all of them are put in the file in the same level, and the connections are implemented using links and/or pointers/references. What is the reason? Is it harder to manipulate REAL trees? (e.g. coding XSLT scripts to handle them); If it's true, is THIS the reason for flatting the XML trees? Do you know DTDs or schemas that define REAL trees? Thanks, -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
