Efficient XML
I have followed the discussion concerning 'efficient' XML, recursion,
etc.
XML is an subset of SGML, also a tool for the semantic modelling of
real-world entitiy references. That's why I think XML tagged information
sets are as use- and powerful as it is the underlying semantic model which
describes of a subset of the real-world.
That's where I see the great opportunity to use the UN/EDIFACT standard:
in porting (remodelling) its semantic structures into semantically
wellformed XML information structure(s).
In this context, recursion makes sense if it is explicitly semantically
necessary and justifiable. Recursion makes no sense, just for remodelling
a rigid data structure on a syntactic level.
best regards
Achim
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