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David Megginson wrote: > <a> > <href>http://www.megginson.com/</href> > Megginson Technologies Ltd. > </a> > > instead of > > <a href="http://www.megginson.com/">Megginson Technologies Ltd.</a> This is the one that did it for me. I always felt vaguely guilty about the existence of attributes, but that <a href="x">y</a> idiom seems so smooth and more idiomatic than any other syntax I can imagine, that it long ago reconciled me to them. I haven't been able to work out the abstractions and metaphysics of why this feels so right, beyond vague hand-waving about two syntax flavors for when you're wrapping up two really different kinds of things. But then why not five? I think unordered attributes, and dictionary type structures to model them in software, are way out on the plus side of the cost-benefit equation as a design decision in SGML and XML. -- Cheers, Tim Bray (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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