Re: Why does XML call them "attributes" and not name-value pai

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From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@g...>
To: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 08:01:22 -0500

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/ˈatrəˌbyo͞ot/

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a piece of information which determines the properties of a field or tag in a database or a string of characters in a display.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 7:42 AM Roger L Costello <costello@m...> wrote:

Hi Folks,

Someone once told me:

Call it what it is.
Don’t invent some artificial name.

The items in yellow:

<Person name="John Doe" employer="Acme Inc." age="30">…</Person>

are name-value pairs.

Why does XML call them “attributes”?

/Roger

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- Why does XML call them "attributes" and not name-value pairs?
  - From: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>

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