• To: simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent)
• Subject: Re: Penance for misspent attributes
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:49:23 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: aray@n... (Arjun Ray), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1021590681.17392.6227.camel@l...> from "Simon St.Laurent" at May 16, 2002 07:11:20 PM

Simon St.Laurent scripsit:

> > And, of course, Keeping Things Safe For Netploder.  Is there some taboo on
> > mentioning this?
> 
> No - I just don't use it much.  Is there something specific in its
> handling of attributes I've missed?

The point is that since browsers normally ignore attributes they don't understand,
but replace unknown elements with their contents (recursively), keeping
embedded data in attributes hides it from browsers.

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I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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