• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: Joe Fawcett <joefawcett@h...>
• Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:01:49 -0500

On 3/1/11 3:42 AM, Joe Fawcett wrote:
> Mukul
> Possibly, I thought it was 'Entities'. The trouble with that is it might
> be confusing as it's often used in general parlance for entity references.

Just write about elements, attributes, and their contents, and try to 
stay away from node unless you're in an explicitly programming (DOM or 
similar) context.  "Information Items" is even worse.

Some meta is just not worth the confusion cost.

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Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

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