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Andrew Layman wrote: > Regarding use of elements versus attributes, Andy Dent wrote "The > path that > Microsoft seem to be following with XML-Data is to use elements ... My > single biggest problem with this is the reuse of elements within other > elements - you can't define an element with local 'scope'. What > happens when > Amount is an i2 in one context and a float in another?" > > At http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/microsoft-serializing.html > you'll find > a description of a style of using XML in which attributes play a > major role, > specifically to avoid the problem you mention with local scope. > This is all very reasonable. I think I'm missing something here in regard to what you mean by the term 'local scope'. Would this problem be solved by the use of the dt:dt attribute e.g. <Amount dt:dt="i2">34</Amount> <Amount dt:dt="float">34</Amount> In fact, this is my biggest problem with using attributes to hold property values: how ought these values be themselves typed? Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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