Re: [xml-dev] Penance for misspent attributes

[Arjun Ray <aray@nyct.net>]

John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> wrote:

| Not cause and effect.  The XPath data model, on which XSLT depends,
| predates the Infoset and was not affected by it.  Rather, the Infoset
| was affected by the XPath data model, 

The relationships and dependencies weren't at issue.  As I said, the flaw
has been systemic.  If all the world's paths and sets and models and
whatevers never make room for the concept of a list of tokens, precious
few are going to try to find out what they could be good for.