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From: Ronald Bourret <rbourret@i...> >Is it worth distinguishing between elements that can only contain PCDATA >and elements that can contain both PCDATA and subelements? I realize that >the XML spec doesn't have separate terms for these, but in real life they >are very different. A PCDATA-only element is very close to an attribute, >while an element containg PCDATA and elements is a very different beast >altogether. One advantage of not making the distinction is that you subsequently have a greater freedom to qualify the data held by an element by adding child elements--one of the advantages of content over attributes. As an programmer, I agree with you. I'd like the distinction. But when I think about how an application might mature with time, I'd rather the implementation not make that distinction! Bill xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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