• From: "David Lee" <dlee@c...>
• To: "'Manos Batsis'" <manos_lists@g...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:34:00 -0500

Nothing stopping your application from allowing  that equivalence.



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David A. Lee
dlee@c...
http://www.xmlsh.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Manos Batsis [mailto:manos_lists@g...] 
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 11:44 AM
To: David Lee; xml-dev@l... >> XML Developers List
Subject: Just nodes please (was: Re:  XML2.0: Truncated End Tags (Was: Fixing what's broke))


On 12/06/2010 06:04 PM, David Lee wrote:
> If you really value conciseness above all else there is always attributes

On a sidenote, it would be great if

<node1 node2="node3" />

was equal to

<node1>
  <node2>node3</node2>
</node1>

so that APIs could be simplified and schemas could *actually* become 
extensible in practice.

My 0.2 euros.

Manos

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