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• Subject: Re: Create XML
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 21:16:27 -0400
• In-reply-to: <20030621152154.B76A213383E@b...>

uche.ogbuji@f... (Uche Ogbuji) writes:
>Whew.  So I'm not alone on this.  I was scratching my head wondering
>what I was missing that's so evil about attribute normalization.  I've
>always thought it was a central part of the usefulness of attributes
>and went with the very rough rule "human readable in content, machine
>readable in attributes".

Problems emerge when machines write back out what they read and human
expectations enter the process again.  

I don't mind given machines access to information in forms that are
easier for them - I just mind that information is lost in any round trip
through that giving of access and then back to XML.

Ditto for attribute order.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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