While I agree it makes it bulkier, I disagree with the argument specifics.
That is "looking ahead" is only a side effect of a particular parser implementation.
i.e.
if a parser reads
<thing
It has to look ahead in both cases
A) id="abc"
B) ><id>abc<
It just happens that most XML parsers do this lookahead thing for you for attributes (and some do it for elements) ... but its not intrinsic in XML.
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David A. Lee
http://www.xmlsh.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Welch [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 9:15 AM
> To: Costello, Roger L.
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Six Reasons Not to use XML Attributes
>
> > 2. Avoiding XML attributes makes your language simpler.
>
> It really doesn't, it makes it bulkier and more annoying to process.
>
> <thing type="A">
>
> vs
>
> <thing>
> <type>A</type>
>
> When processing <thing> you need to look ahead to determine how to
> process it.
>
>
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> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
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