Re: Endtag attributes

Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@ifi.uio.no)
10 Nov 1998 16:57:10 +0100


* Anders W. Tell
|
| As a part of a small R&D project Im I trying to look into the issues
| of elements vs. attributes and having attributes in endtags
| (im know its outside current xml standard).
|
| Is there anyone that could point me to research /papers/discussion on
| the net ?

I doubt that there is anything, but if there is you can find it at

<URL:http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/>

Some cons I thought of:

- additional complexity in APIs and syntaxes, or, if these are kept
as they are, in parsers
- endtag attributes are not available until the entire element has
been parsed (and it may be _very_ large), so that if the values
influence the treatment of the element contents in any way, this
may cause performance problems

The only pro I can think of is pretty far-fetched:

- might be easier to generate markup from some kinds of applications,
since attribute values would not have to be determined until after
the element contents had been written out

--Lars M.