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

Dan Brickley wrote:

 

  • You can get here by asking "name of what", "value of what"? From where I stand the notion of attributes and properties is more strongly established than "name-value pair", and provides the context for understanding how the "value" encodes a claim about an attribute of something.

 

Oh!

 

That turned on a lightbulb in my head.

 

Truly excellent. Thank you Dan.

 

/Roger



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