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RE: malfunctioning, evil adult as XML

• To: 'Richard Tobin' <richard@c...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: malfunctioning, evil adult as XML
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:28:58 -0600

That's an advantage not a problem.  Programmers 
have problems with advantages that are not 
consistent with their problems.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Tobin [mailto:richard@c...]

>Attributes don't have order. Elements do. Elements can contain 
>other elements. Attributes can't.

This of course is one of the problems with the attributes/elements
distinction: structuring, uniqueness, and ordering are confounded.

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