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Re: Content v. attribute

• From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@j...>
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• Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 02:14:59 +0800

-----Original Message-----
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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