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At 04:21 AM 11/28/99 -0500, you wrote: >On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Don Park wrote: >> I believe it is now time to address the question of >> whether Attribute should be supported in SML or not. > >Summary: > > Attributes cannot be eliminated without > providing a suitable replacement. > >Discussion: > > The reason why SGML/XML/SML is so powerful is > that it accurately reflects the dual nature > of reality. Code has two aspects -- it is > edited as data and run as instructions. > > This pattern is recursive. Witness yet another > compiler ("yacc"), it is code which instructs the > generation of code. > Now you are starting to cook. The only way to model reality is to allow the recursion (although it is mostly tail recursion and could be be converted to iteration) ... Truncate it if we must but allow it. (name, value) is the equivalent of a pointer. Next SML must allow all possible data structures to be built easily without arbitrary and artificial interference. Objects and their markup follow. This is why I am in favour of SML with no attributes and as Didder PH Martin notes a single data model (name,value) or abstract pointer. The real bang from simplication comes from simplifying and clarifying the stuff that goes on top. Time to move the discussion up a notch in abstraction as you have done. Nice post. Bob La Quey 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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