xml-dev - RE: Structured attributes

["Don Park" <donpark@docuverse.com>]

To me, uniqueness of attributes are not much of
a benefit and a problem if I want to have alternate
values.  It simpler, from my view, to have attributes
as elements and order of multiple instances given some
signficance such as order of preference.  So, I can say

<a>
  <href>http://www.foo.com/info.xml</href>
  <href>http://www.bar.com/info.xml</href>
  <text>Information</text>
</a>

So, I prefer making attributes just a convenient form of
child elements which gives us structured attributes without
adding new features.  Of course, this would cause a conflict
with mixed content which is one of the reasons why we
dropped mixed content in SML.

Best,

Don Park    -   mailto:donpark@docuverse.com
Docuverse   -   http://www.docuverse.com


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