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RE: DTD Question: Attributes vs Elements

• From: Jarle Stabell <jarle.stabell@d...>
• To: "'xml-dev@i...'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 12:46:03 +0100

Tim Bray wrote:
> Attributes differ in  that 
> - they get white-space-normalized
> - their order is not significant
> - you can't have more than 1 with the same name on an element
> - they can't contain any internal structure

They also don't "pollute" the namespace.

Cheers,
Jarle


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