Re: XML tools for Octave

[Alois Schloegl]

Geordie McBain wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 21:23 +0200, Schloegl Alois wrote:
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> > > > > > <a b="c" d="e"> text <f g="h"/> more text <f>data</f> </a>
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> > I'm not sure about whether reversibility is really needed. Can you  
> > explain the possible significance on the position of <f g="h"/> ?
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> O.K.  The two <f> elements are embedded in the sequence of stuff in the
> <a> element, and have definite places in the sequence.
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> For example, if you wanted to write a sentence containing an Egyptian
> hieroglyph or some mathematical symbol so novel or arcane it's not in
> Unicode, you might resort to making an image of the symbol and putting
> it in line like that.  This is similar to the example
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>        <p>abcd <i>efg</i> jklm</p>
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> Bill Denney posted overnight.
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Your example is about a textual data field containing some non-string 
element. This is not a critical case, because we do not aim to implement 
an advanced word processor within Octave. Therefore, I think the simple 
solution as proposed by Andy would be sufficient - at least for this case. 


Alois