Re: Newbie Q

Dean Roddey (roddey@us.ibm.com)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:50:05 -0400

>I do not think this assumption has any basis whatever in the XML 1.0
>specification, and it certainly has no basis in the parent standard,
>ISO 8879. There is some basis in HTML browser behavior, but that is
>(in my opinion) a Bad Thing, and not to be perpetuated as a standard
>agreement. It is dangerous for all the same reasons as in "HTML":
>the industry got stuck with hard-coded application processing semantic=
s.
>XML encoding itself should used with the semantic opacity that the
>specification implies, in my judgment; styles and other (separate)
>processing specifications should determine how/whether certain (charac=
ter)
>data in an XML document is acted upon (displayed, suppressed, etc.).

So does anyone have any opinions on whether something like XSL will be =
more
convenient to
deal with attributes than elements? Are the semantics of XSL such that =
one
would be more easily
and compactly notated than the other?

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Dean Roddey
Software Weenie
IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley
roddey@us.ibm.com
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