Re: Namespaces,

[Al Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Cowan wrote:

> > As an aside that will no
> > doubt cause another long discussion, except for the fact that attributes
> > are typed, is there anything you can do with an attribute that you can't
> > do with a PCDATA-only child element?)
>
> Well, you can express attributes in any order and be guaranteed that
> an element has at most one attribute with a given name.

Attributes are irritating - they're purely a representation thing, not a
core data model thing, really. You can express elements in any order
unless you state that order matters, and you can state that a valid
instance has only one of a particular element in thy schema...

ABS

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