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> If you mean > > <foo><bar>baz</bar></foo> <==> <foo bar="baz"> > > that's right: AFs don't provide for this. (There a number of "good" > reasons, but that's a separate debate. I'm sorely tempted to offer a > reason or two, but I desist...) Oh, give in to the temptation! :-) I'm sorely trying to understand why this was not allowed in AF. Is it because of its emphasis on extraction of information that such associations are not really useful or ? > > and the other half is the pruning/reordering the morphologically > > fungible parts. Is there anything I'm grossly missing? > > The two halves are the same thing. The rubric is attribute-based > processing (for which, btw, plenty of precedents exist, e.g. CSS > styling based on the CLASS attribute), in terms of which generic > identifiers ("tagnames") are values morphologically. Ok, I agree that renaming isn't the point of AFs; I see what you are saying, that the names are simply identifiers that allow content to be freely "pruned/reordered" around. Ahhh... > You haven't missed anything:) Cool. Sanity checks out. :-) /David *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/threads.html ***************************************************************************
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