Re: [xml-dev] Why does XML call them "attributes" and not name-value pai

[Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

Abstraction? It is represented as name-value pair but it could have been a tuple, say a name-value-datatype triple. (Maybe it will be extended one day.) It would still be an attribute. 

On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 at 12:42, Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> wrote:

Hi Folks,

 

Someone once told me:

 

               Call it what it is.
               Don’t invent some artificial name.

 

The items in yellow:

 

<Person name="John Doe" employer="Acme Inc." age="30">…</Person>

 

are name-value pairs.

 

Why does XML call them “attributes”?

 

/Roger

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Stephen D Green