>Your point is well-taken, though: fragments of XML documents are often
>tightly bound to their context (similar situations would involve
>attributes for effectivity, security level, revision status, etc.).
But one of the advantages of a hierarchically-structured data
representation is the ability to have scopes to which properties apply. If
a processor can't at least maintain a stack of the attributes of the
ancestors of the current element, it's pretty darn braindead.
I mean come on, we have to presume *some* intelligence in processors.
Cheers,
E.
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