- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:34:00 -0000
- To: "'Mukul Gandhi'" <mukul_gandhi@yahoo.com>, "'Michael Rys'" <mrys@microsoft.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
> Thanks for the answer. I am now curious, why XML > attributes have this characteristic.. That's a historical question: you might get a better answer from the SGML folks on xml-dev. There is, I think, a very strong consensus in the XML world that elements are ordered but attributes are not - though I don't think there is anything in the XML spec itself that says so. However, you will find this consensus reflected in most processing models and APIs for XML. It derives, I think, from the traditional use of elements to represent the visible text in a document and attributes to represent its typographical properties. Michael Kay
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