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>>The "warm fuzzy" feeling you get from attributes may just be relief that you don't have to type so much! But that's an accidental consequence of the fact that we have to write our XML by hand--a more automated process would have no such feelings. Attributes are a shortcut that make XML easier to code by hand, at the cost of introducing a certain amount of unavoidable ambiguity regarding how a given piece of data should be modelled. Bravo! Exactly right. We trade off warm fuzzies for future expandability, when with a little more thought and another layer, we could have both. Sometimes software design requires this kind of insight. In XML-RPC, you almost never look at the payload, and you never write it by hand. Other kinds of XML we do write by hand, and in those cases, attributes are very welcome and nice. But for the boiler-room applications, the ones that humans never type by hand, you have to watch out for those trade-offs. Dave 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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