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> I can't resist chipping in my tuppence, since this touches on one of the > truly horrific aspects of the design of SGML and, yes, Groves. (Feel free > to ignore my adjectives; I'm in a hyper bolic mood.) > > I would conclude that attributes were a truly unfortunate > > decision, and we > > Not the fact of attribution, but the horrible way in which it is modeled, > for which we can thank SGML. "Groves" is even more monstrous in its > treatment of this. Surely you meant to say: "The *SGML Property Set* is even more monstrous in its treatment of this." (:^) The grove paradigm, when used, is always exactly as monstrous (or as elegant) as the property sets that are being used with it. -Steve -- Steven R. Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc. srn@t... http://www.techno.com ftp.techno.com voice: +1 972 231 4098 fax +1 972 994 0087 pager (150 characters max): srn-page@t... 3615 Tanner Lane Richardson, Texas 75082-2618 USA 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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