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> > Because avoiding the difference between attributes and elements > simplifyes the addressing and *every* realted API ( Xpath, Xslt, DOM, > XQL e t.c. ) a *lot* + it avoids 'multiple levels of encoding' problems e t.c. > That seems like the best reason to remove attributes from "SML" to me too. A couple of potential downsides ... If SML parsers don't recognize attributes, then we can't have an SML-ized XHTML. Does anyone care? How about WML? I for one would care if WML was incompatible with SML ... How about XSLT? It would be nice if stylesheets to turn SML into something displayable were themselves parseable as SML. I'm pretty sure that you couldn't write a useful XSLT stylesheet without using attributes .... I'm inclined to allow attributes in SML itself but to have a "non-normative appendix" that is a fairly integral part of the document explaining that attributes are supported only for compatibility reasons and discouraging people from using them in "new" SML applications and outlining the various attribute-related pitfalls to avoid. Obviously I'm still open to arguments on either side. 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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