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On 12/21/13 4:11 PM, Michael Kay wrote: This is broadly right. I'm not sure that "betray" is the right word, and I wouldn't limit it to formatting. However, the presence of additional information within the element structure certainly makes it easier to annotate a flow of text without having to modify the original flow.Attributes betray the origins of XML as a document markup language. The text nodes contain the content, the attributes contain the information used for formatting the text. Yes. I can imagine cases where the attribute/element split could be useful for data, but they are, well, more fanciful, mostly about annotation after other patterns of use are established.For a language designed for data interchange, the attribute/element split would be nonsense. But for a document markup language, it makes eminent sense. Thanks, -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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