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- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:40:25 -0700
Tim Bray wrote:
>
> From the programmer's point of view, there's
> no difference in the degree-of-difficulty of extracting info from elements
> and attributes. And in the (large, important) subset of XML where the
> information is created and handled directly by humans, I have observed
> that people get a warm fuzzy glow from attributes and find XML more readable
> when some stuff is in attributes. So... why struggle? -Tim
Heck, if folk want XML without attributes, then I'd as soon just use
LISP S-Expresssions ... and since folk seem to have chosen not to go
that route, I'd say stick with the attributes! ;-)
- Dave
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