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How about...
<ur l="me1.jpg"/>
<ul l="me2.jpg"/>
or some such...
Seairth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
To: "XML-DEV Discussion" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: [xml-dev] Attributes: syntax hacks
> A simple issue that pops up when using
> XML to represent object-oriented languages
> is the mismatch between fields and attributes.
> If a field has structure, it shouldn't be
> an attribute. But when the expression is
> simply repeatability (ie, the attribute
> contains an array of string values), the
> messy problem of spaces pops back out.
>
> To me these are ugly hacks:
>
> URL='"me1.jpg" "me2.png"' and
> URL='"me.jpg""me2.jpg"'
>
> and dicey because:
>
> o they are vulnerable to authoring errors,
> so weakening the XML document where it is
> suppose to be strong: parse and go.
>
> o they are vulnerable to the machinations
> of XML-like systems such as the SOAP
> processor which does nothing with the
> entity declaration.
>
> But considering that filenames can have
> spaces in them in both MS and Unix operating
> systems, other than stuffing %20 in the strings,
> that is a likely solution.
>
> Other than
>
> <url>me1.jpg</url>
> <url>me2.jpg</url>
>
> what are better solutions?
>
> len
>
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