- From: Paul Grosso <paul@arbortext.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 00:16:27 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 16:58 1997 05 23 -0700, Andrew Layman wrote: >Fair question. > ><BOOK lib:loaned-to="Andrew">Last of the Mohecans</BOOK> > ><BOOK> > <TITLE>Philosophy: Who Needs It</TITLE> > <PRICE banks:CURRENCY="USD">6.95</PRICE> ></BOOK> > >We can get some integration of concepts across various doctypes by >sharing attributes. Andrew, Thanks for the response. I interpret this to mean you believe some attributes have "meaning" independently of the element they qualify, as "currency" has meaning independently of "price". But, in general, do most attributes in fact have unambiguous meaning independent of the element? (I doubt it.) Why would you define a <price> element *without* a "currency" attribute? What is the advantage of having price's currency attribute defined in a namespace separate from that of price's namespace? I cannot see the point of your example unless you can give a case where: <PRICE some_other_namespace:CURRENCY="USD"> also makes sense and means something different from your example, and I don't see it. I still remain unconvinced it makes sense for attributes to come from a namespace different from that of the element itself. paul
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