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Re: Multiple instances of an attribute Re: Towards XM

• From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
• To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:15:37 -0500

Small change, large consequences.  Attributes then either accumulate 
values (so foo="bar" foo="baz" results in a pseudo-normalized foo="bar 
baz"), on the model of HTTP headers, or sequence begins to matter for 
attributes (they become effectively simple-typed elements).  If 
sequence matters, existing APIs that assume that ordering doesn't 
matter break.  Canonicalization must take a different approach.

*shrug*  I don't think this is a win.  The element/attribute 
distinction is currently interesting (attributes are unique-in-scope, 
elements may reappear; attribute sequence isn't significant, element 
sequence may); this would reduce it to "attributes are simple types; 
elements may be complex."

Amy!
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 14:22:28 +0000, Stephen Green wrote:
> Has anyone yet suggested the allowing of multiple attributes with the
> same name to enable a more succinct XML (more comparable to JSON)?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Stephen D Green
> 
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• References:
  • Multiple instances of an attribute Re: Towards XML 2.0
    • From: Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>