• Reported by Nate

In my last post I accidentally reminded myself of a general concern I've been meaning to voice regarding XML and writing. If you actually viewed the last post within NetNewsWire, or any other RSS reader, or via syndication on another site, it's painfully obvious that I wrote my last post without regard for the flexibility of context that XML content storage affords. Which leads to the more general question: what is being done to inform writers how to chunk information into neat re-orderable chunks that are not inter-dependent to their original context? I should point out that I'm not experienced in the field of technical writing, which may already have compensations for this? Besides some extroadinary language processing, I can't imagine a way that this problem could be fixed automatically. In fact, I would imagine that problems regarding context of content could easily slip under the radar for many projects which use XML to structure content. Of course this would be more applicable to situations where paragraphs of text are involved, rather than applications which simply store pair after pair of someVariable=someValue.