Re: [xml-dev] XML attributes are weird

From
Ihe Onwuka <>
To
James Fuller <>
Date
2013-12-22T04:21:17Z
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Re: [xml-dev] XML attributes are weird
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 9:31 PM, James Fuller
<> wrote:
>
> Rule #2 - If you have information that itself does not need to be marked up
> then you might have a candidate for an attribute. Alternately if you have
> content that you insist on having no structure/markup then an attribute
> might be for you.
>

<completelyAbsentOfDeepThought>Attributes may be ugly but
schematically designating that an element is atomic and can have no
structure(child elements or attrtibutes is
uglier</completelyAbsentOfDeepThought>