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Re: Six Reasons Not to use XML Attributes

• From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
• To: Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>
• Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 12:20:33 -0500

Uche Ogbuji scripsit:

> Excellent stuff. I'll throw in my own bits:
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-eleatt/index.html

En passant, I disagree with you that a simple text element is the wrong
way to represent a personal name (although it should be repeatable).
See my rant "Against Structured Names and Telephone Numbers" at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Of_rL8gMtHcfPaE5DfZ1xahrOtOaxFEHiQkcxvvR3lY

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Andrew Watt on Microsoft:                       John Cowan
Never in the field of human computing           cowan@ccil.org
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