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RE: attribute order (RE: Syntax Sugar and XML information models)

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:04:26 -0500

At 06:44 PM 3/29/01 +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
>I've heard quite a few people working with XHTML complain about that.
>Changing from <br /> to <br></br> isn't so good, and people are unhappy
>about tools that don't pay enough attention to such details.

The XHTML case is even trickier, since most XSLT processors come with 
built-in modes for XML and HTML.

The XML mode would produce:
<br/>

The HTML mode would produce:
<br>

And what the XHTML folks really want is:
<br />

4xt.org built an output mode for XT that supported that distinction, but I 
haven't followed it in the other XSLT processors.


Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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