Re: XML - Is there a way to use parameters?

["Lech Rzedzicki" <xchaotic -at- gmail -dot- com>]

XML is a Markup Language, used for describing content. Why do you want to
put logical operations where they don't belong? The concept is clearly
beyond me, after all if you want to do anything with XML, you have to
process it, be it via XSL Transformation, or parsing using libraries of your
choice in Perl, Java etc I think that if you have requirements to do such
operations, you should put them, where they belong - in the application
logic, not in the XML.
Furthermore your particular example shows use of CDATA and it's content is
not XML anymore. Such usage also goes again the whole idea of XML: document
should be readable to both machines and Human beings.
All this leads me to think that you don't need to use XML at and you might
be better off, at least performance-wise, with some binary encoding of the
data.
If you need to stick to W3.org standars, use XSLT to do what you describe
above and leave XML as readable as possible.



On 2/6/07, Brian Modreski <brian -dot- modreski -at- openlogic -dot- com> wrote: