- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:00:22 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> > From: Rowland Shaw [SMTP:Rowland.Shaw@crystaldecisions.com] > > > > This doesn't seem "add" anything extra, other than bandwdth consumed, as > > far > > as I can see. In addition, when used with normal HTML forms, it breaks backwards compatibility, and it encourages poor usage of XML by making everything text, rather than making a correct division between text and attributes, and by producing flat XML. I suspect XML is being used as a fashion here, and I'd question whether it is really appropriate to work in XML until after you've done the basic server side validation; you should never trust client side validation, as anything other than an optimisation of the user interface. I've seen a number of people's attempts to convert to XML (I guess it used to be ASN.1) and they normally completely fail to use attributes.
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