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Don Park wrote: > > I believe it is now time to address the question of > whether Attribute should be supported in SML or not. > I am not a frequent participant here, but I am opposed to the use of attributes in the XML as it is happening right now. What I don't like is the way query languages for XML suffer because of the attributes. Attributes require a special syntax in the XML query languages, just like in XML itself. Instead of writing OQL-ish path expressions like: homes.home.id you will have to write: <homes> <home id=_ /> </homes> in XML-QL or similar languages. XQL also does not treat attributes and element equally. If you don't know whether the object you are picking is an attribute or an element, you will have to write a disjunction. There could also be a case when an element has an attribute and a subelement with the same name, you might have to guard against such case. I.e. things get messy fast. So I think if attributes are out, a lot of XML tools, including query processors will get simpler. Also there will be less opportunity for the users to screw up when using these tools. Pavel Velikhov pvelikho@c... http://www.db.ucsd.edu 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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