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At 00:19 12/7/97 -0400, Giovanni Flammia wrote: > The one difference that I see is this >one. When the data >being transmitted is a simple list of of key-value pairs, XML would do >it like this: > ><userid>name</userid> ><userpassword>mypassword</userpassword> > >or like this: > ><userid value=name /> ><userpassword value=mypassword /> > >Otherwise, the tagging scheme is pretty much compatible (correct me if >I'm wrong). > >I think it would be highly desirable that either XML incorporates the >simpler OFX listing >with no ending tag, or OFX comply to XML. Unfortunately we lost this battle in the XML debate - XML forces you to use end-tags even where their absence is detectable as it presumes you need to know nothing about the DTD to be able to parse it. If you do not know whether <userpassword> is a subelement of or a sibling of <userid> you need the end-tag to tell you. ---- Martin Bryan, 29 Oldbury Orchard, Churchdown, Glos. GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 E-mail: mtbryan@s... For details about The SGML Centre contact http://www.sgml.u-net.com/ For details about the Open Information Interchange initiative contact http://www.echo.lu/oii/home.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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