Tip: Variable substitution in XML documents
10/23/2006
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipentref.html
XML was originally created simply to allow for documents to be authored (marked up) in a
variety of formats. Because XML is primarily a language for representing static data, the
idea of variables, value substitution, and other dynamic data representations were not
considered (at least, not much!). As a result, XML documents often end up with redundant
data, inconsistent data, and a variety of other problems that result from purely static
data formats. Read more…
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