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Subject:Notation for XML nested tags? From:"Stevenson, Rebecca" <Rebecca -dot- Stevenson -at- workscape -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 19 May 2004 15:55:51 -0400
Greetings to the techwr-l hive mind, and as usual a plea for help. :-)
I am documenting a mess of XML stuff right now for an audience that is not necessarily savvy in the topic. Something I was thinking of doing was trying to capture in the text the relationship between nested tags. If tag foo is always used inside tag bar, when I refer to tag foo I wanted to mention bar so my users keep the relationship in mind as they make their changes to the file.
1) Is this a dumb idea?
2) Is there a standard way of noting these relationships as there is for code? foo.bar, or something?
I haven't been able to find anything, which leads me to wonder if the answer to 1 is "yes" and no one has seen a need for it.
Your thoughts are humbly solicited.
Rebecca Stevenson
We can do this.
Technical Writer
Workscape, Inc.
> 508-861-3059
AIM: RJSWriter
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