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Re: Content v. attribute

From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@-------.--->
To: <xml-dev@--.--.-->
Date: 10/26/1998 6:19:00 PM
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From: Dave Winer <dave@u...>

>I consider it a flaw of XML that it has two ways to do hierarchy

Bear in mind that XML was designed primarily for *document* interchange. The
attribute vs element decision (which is really just a markup vs content
decision)  IMO, is a lot less clear in data-centric applications than it is
in document-centric ones. XML might have looked quite different if the
things people are doing nowadays with XML were thought up when SGML was
being developed.

James
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Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

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