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"Clark C. Evans" writes: > Take the following HTML fragment: > <table border="2" cellpadding="50"> > <tr><td>One</td><td>Two</td></tr> > <tr><td colspan="2">Three</td></tr> > </element> > I clearly see the different role that content plays > as opposed to attributes. The border and cellpadding > attributes *modify* the state of the table; where > the tr element content is *part-of* the table. mmm, if you really look at it, things are mudded because you forget that <table> is an object having a field "rows", which is a list of elements of "type" <tr>, and that <tr> is an object having a field named "cells" having a list of <td>s as values. Now, replace the word "field" by "attributes" and you see that contents is actually a kind of attribute, with its real name omitted and implicit (actually, explicited somewhat in the DTD. Everything is confused in XML because everything is of type "text", that you mix n match everywhere. For me, your exemple *should* be written in an ideal XML 2: <table border="2" cellpadding="50" rows= <tr cells=<td contents="One"/><td contents="Two"/>/> <tr cells=<td colspan="2"contents="Three"/>/> /> -- Colas Nahaboo, Koala/Dyade/Bull @ INRIA Sophia, http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas 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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