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> "Why should attributes be supported in SML?" Because without them, it's not clear how I can point at something. - SML should be useful for conveying "objects" (blocks of related data) - Objects often reference one another ("pointing") - You need a way to identify objects, so you can point to them Example in XML: <Thing id='foo' /> Now I can refer to "foo" or the "Thing called foo" or whatever is appropriate in my application, and it's pretty clear in my language which thing I'm referring to. Sure, you can normalize this to: <Thing> <Id>foo</Id> </Thing> But, well.... yuck. This is just... strange. Doesn't it strike you as perverse to dive into the sub-elements of an element to get a handle to the parent? -Joshua Smith 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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