RE: [xml-dev] element markup in attributes

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> What do folks think?  Is this reasonable, given the use case, 
> or is this pushing too hard on attributes and escaping?

A number of people have commented on the aesthetics, and I agree with them
entirely.

However, there is also a technical argument: XSLT, XQuery, and any other
processing engine that takes an XML-centric view of the world, will be quite
incapable of generating this stuff.


Regards,

Michael Kay
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