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On 7/15/05, Andrew Layman <andrewl@m...> wrote: <snip/> > > But there is also a versioning issue. Since adding such meta-data as the > last-modified date after the fact is a typical usage, attributes today > allow such annotation with less disruption to existing readers. E.g. > > <email last-modified='2005-02-02'>fred@s...</email> > > But this only works to one level. One cannot add an attribute to that > attribute. > > One could imagine a future version of XML that treated elements and > attributes with more parallelism, and allowed attributes to have > structure, perhaps with an element-like syntax, as in: > > <email>fred@s...<@last-modified>2005-02-02</@last-modified></em > ail> > > And > > <email>fred@s...<@last-modified>2005-02-02<@says-who>Joe</@says > -who></@last-modified></email> > Umm, not to be glib, but at that point you just have an element with a funny name. Semantically, elements can already replace attributes, so what's the point? -- Peter Hunsberger
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