Re: [xml-dev] "Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basicprinciples

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Michael Kay scripsit:

> Giving access to the attributes of ancestor elements is a bit
> questionable because it means the validity/type of an element
> depends on the element's context and not only on its content. 

I'm not sure what that means.  Surely types that depend on the names of
the ancestors are also "depending on the context"?  After all, the
HyTime Lesson is that the element name is just another attribute value.

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