RE: [xml-dev] element markup in attributes

From
Michael Kay <>
To
"'Simon St.Laurent'" <>,
Date
2010-02-17T23:16:03
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<C782382BBBC648778E9B99C23D2ED7A1@Sealion>
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RE: [xml-dev] element markup in attributes
> 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
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay