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From: Don Park <donpark@d...> >I believe it is now time to address the question of >whether Attribute should be supported in SML or not. Because it is convenient for programming. It seems that most XML programs are written so that the elements "push" programs but attributes values are "pulled" in. So the programmer does not need to concern themselves with attributes that are redundant to their task. To make everything an element would reduce the choices available to a programmer. Are you talking about syntax or labelling here? You can see that some people say "lets remove attributes and have '<sml:attribute>' instead". Others say "lets remove comments and have 'comment' instead". This is not a simplification at all: the handling of these has to be handled by subsequent layers (or, worst, by the programmer explicitly: will we have to put in comment { display: none } sml:attribute {display: none} into every CSS stylesheet? Rick Jelliffe 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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