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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. Since you are not asking for use-cases, the only logic driving SML is reductionism. The result can only be a language with 1 encoding and 1 tag and the minimum repertoire for names. SML = (data | "<" ASCII* ">" SML "<" ASCII* ">" )* Given this, discussion seems utterly futile. If people are serious, they should first establish some use-cases of where XML fails. This will also bring out the ramifications of simplicification. In any case, it seems to me that reductionism and anti-reductionism are often character traits rather than technical positions capable of being debated. A reductionist will say "if attributes do not mean something they mean nothing" while an anti-reductionist might respond "it is a DTD/Schema function to allocate the particular roles attributes/elements according to the methodology of the DTD/schema designer: it is a source of richness for there to be a syntactic disrinction which is methodogical neutral and available." 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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