RE: efficient XML

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

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Matthew MacKenzie wrote:

> At 11:18 PM 3/10/00 +0100, Eckenfels. Bernd wrote:
> 
> 
> This is what I mean by recursive.  I don't think anyone other than a person 
> trying to represent a structure would do this.
> 

<Betty>
	Matt, this is hierarchy, not recursion.  Recursion is when you
        have the same structure recursed through the hierarchy, i.e.,

		<section>
			<title>Chapter 1</title>
			<section>
				<title>Section 1.1</title>
			</section>
		</section>

	<section> is a child of <section>.  In a recusive model there
        is no mechanism within the XML to control the number of
        levels the hierarchy.  It can be done external to the XML
	DTD (or Schema when it becomes a reality).

</Betty>

> 
> <universe>
>    <planet>
>      <earth>
>       <continent>
>          <country>
>             <province>
>                <parish>
>                  <municipality>
>                    <community>
>                    <street_address>
>                           <street_name>Richards</street_name>
>                            <street_type>Street</street_type>
>                            <building_number>1234</building_number>
>                                    <dwelling_number>234</dwelling_number>
>                    </street_address>
>                  </community>
>                   </municipality>
>                  </parish>
>                </province>
>              </country>
>           </continent>
>         </earth>
>       </planet>
>    </universe>
> 
> -Matt
> --
> Matthew MacKenzie
> CTO/VP R&D
> XML Global Technologies, Inc.
>