Re: efficient XML

[Betty Harvey <ebxml@eccnet.eccnet.com>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Duane Nickull wrote:

> After reviewing several archives and the recent posts to my messages,
> I can summarize the subject of creating efficient XML in to the
> following.  This is a very vague overview but I beleive it accurately
> reflects the direction we should go in.
> 
> 7.  We should avoid unnecessary levels of recursion.  Keeping the XML fairly
> flat is expected to have a nominal impact of parsing/processing.  My
> personal belief is that this will play a larger part with XML input trees
> that have many branches.
> 

Do you mean recursion or hierarchy?

Recursion:
	<Level>
		<Level>
			<Level></Level>
		</Level>
	</Level>

Hierarchy:

	<Company>
		<Name></Name>
		<Address></Address>
		<Contact>
			<Name></Name>
			<Address></Address>
		</Contact>
	</Company>

If you are talking about true recursion, I agree!  If you are
talking about hierarchy, I would not agree with a flat model.

Betty

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