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Subject:Re[4]: SGML [features, attributes, relationships] From:Joyce Flaherty <flahertj -at- SMTPGW -dot- LIEBERT -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 31 Mar 1996 15:17:38 EST
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Len Olszewski, Project Manager, SGML Technology Group,
saslpo -at- unx -dot- sas -dot- com
wrote:
<snip>
> The point is that if you assign attribute values, then
> group based on the attribute values to assign metadata,
> you are duplicating a function. Unnecessary attribute
> values in a large database for frequent and
> relatively small elements adds size to your data,
> subtracts performance speed from your processing,
> and adds nothing to your application. Better to
> achieve the grouping using a database tool, or
> some other convention, than to muck with attributes.
<snip>
==============
I seeeeeeeeeee.
By George, I think she's got it!
I don't consider myself slow, but this one went right
over my head--light speed! Must be the pizza I slept
with last night, or the TV test pattern finally
getting to me.
Let me restate it: I require the group association in
the application I am using NOW (limitation of the software)
to perform certain meta-functions. In the target environment,
the SGML environment, this is redundant information.
thanks,
I owe you one,
joyce flaherty
flahertj -at- smtpgw -dot- liebert -dot- com
