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>I do not think this assumption has any basis whatever in the XML 1.0 >specification, and it certainly has no basis in the parent standard, >ISO 8879. There is some basis in HTML browser behavior, but that is >(in my opinion) a Bad Thing, and not to be perpetuated as a standard >agreement. It is dangerous for all the same reasons as in "HTML": >the industry got stuck with hard-coded application processing semantics. >XML encoding itself should used with the semantic opacity that the >specification implies, in my judgment; styles and other (separate) >processing specifications should determine how/whether certain (character) >data in an XML document is acted upon (displayed, suppressed, etc.). So does anyone have any opinions on whether something like XSL will be more convenient to deal with attributes than elements? Are the semantics of XSL such that one would be more easily and compactly notated than the other? ---------------------------------------- Dean Roddey Software Weenie IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley roddey@u... 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/ 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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