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Re: genx - StartTag flavors

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: genx - StartTag flavors
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:22:45 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Tim Bray scripsit:

> John Cowan opined that the 9-argument genxStartTag call was like a 
> non-object-oriented bad dream and should be kiboshed.  Someone else 
> pointed out that if you added just one more "textContent" argument you 
> could write a whole leaf element in one fell swoop.  

That was a much simpler case without attributes, so local name, namespace
name, prefix, and text content were the 4 arguments.  In either case,
it's easy to roll your own.

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