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David Megginson wrote:
> <a>
> <href>http://www.megginson.com/</href>
> Megginson Technologies Ltd.
> </a>
>
> instead of
>
> <a href="http://www.megginson.com/">Megginson Technologies Ltd.</a>
This is the one that did it for me. I always felt vaguely guilty about
the existence of attributes, but that <a href="x">y</a> idiom seems so
smooth and more idiomatic than any other syntax I can imagine, that it
long ago reconciled me to them. I haven't been able to work out the
abstractions and metaphysics of why this feels so right, beyond vague
hand-waving about two syntax flavors for when you're wrapping up two
really different kinds of things. But then why not five? I think
unordered attributes, and dictionary type structures to model them in
software, are way out on the plus side of the cost-benefit equation as a
design decision in SGML and XML.
--
Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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