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> Thanks Dimitre, is there a logical explanation of writing the > spec in this > way? Why attributes are no childs of its element? XML, for historical reasons rooted in typographical markup, distinguishes "content" from "properties". Content is the information intended for the reader, properties are extra information intended for the software processing that information. This history explains why we have the split between elements and attributes (logically, attributes aren't necessary at all), and explains why they are treated differently in the object model. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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