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[Dave Winer] >Attributes are for wispy little very optional things, if they are for >anything at all. Not true. In a classical document markup environment, attributes are an important means to separate document content from metadata. It is much easier to process (and eventually to ignore or filter, e.g. for displaying/editing content) additional information that is encoded in a different way than the document's content. XML was made for simple processing, and attributes can be used to support this. This content/attribute distinction may be less important for XML-RPC or other data-exchange XML applications, but these are only one (admittedly important) part of the XML picture. .co. ---------------------------------------------- daisy bytes! --------- Carsten Oberscheid co@d... digital document processing http://www.pweb.de/daisybytes.su electronic publishing 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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