• From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@u...>
• To: James Clark <jjc@j...>, xml-dev Mailing List <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:42:39

At 09:42 25/02/98 +0700, James Clark wrote:
>
>>     public abstract String getType (int index);
>
>I like this.
>
So do I. As XML grows larger and acquires more extensions (XLL, XSL, etc.)
there will be an increasing number of 'hardcoded' attribute types and
values. For example, the type of HREF/href is effectively determined as
CDATA (it would be perverse to make it ID, for example, even if not in
xml-link context) and xml:lang is required (I think) to be NMTOKEN or
NMTOKENS. Hardcoding all these 'special cases' is a pain and SAX (or DOM)
can help with implementing the prose in the specs.

	P.
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