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At 03:50 AM 11/11/2003, Michael Kay wrote: >A lot of people nowadays forget that the M in XML stands for markup. >Markup is a noun derived from a verb: it implies that you start with a >piece of continuous text, and you then annotate it, without changing the >original content. > >So the original motivation for the difference between attributes and >child elements is that child elements contain the original data and >attributes contain the annotations. An excellent, clear explanation. Jonathan
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