> Simon, The feature isn't useless. Most people agree that attributes
> are meant for annotating elements. The Namespaces in XML
> recommendation allows authors to choose between context sensitive
> attribute values E.g.
>
> <myns:Parent name="must be a number between 1 - 100"><myns:Child
> name="can be any string"/></myns:Parent>
>
> or creating global attributes that represent the same idea regardless
> of what element they appear on
>
> <myns:Parent myns:id="must be unique in document"><myns:Child
> myns:id="must be unique in document"><></myns:Parent>
I'm sorry, Dare, but in my world that's utterly useless, not to mention
confusing and complicating. If you can find a genuinely good reason for
this:
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.w3.org"
about="http://www.w3.org/not/really/I'm/just/kidding/">
please let me know. Using global attributes to mean something different
in a local context seems completely bizarre and desperately pointless to
me. It's bad practice.
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