• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:39:54 -0400

Jonathan Borden wrote:

> are there other pressing reasons why values (particularly
> table columns) ought be expressed as attributes rather than elements? 

The only place where attributes *must* be used is where naive (i.e. HTML)
browsers may be looking at the content, in which case attribute
values are typically hidden and #PCDATA content is typically
exposed.  This is the main rationale for allowing RDF statements
to use either attributes or elements.

Attributes are also modestly more compact.

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