- From: Sam Hunting <sgmlsh@CAM.ORG>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 11:54:43 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> xmlnames="ptr=href captions=labels"
> would mean that the PTR attribute role will be filled by an attribute
> called "href" and the captions role by one called "labels". Eve also had
> the pairs in the opposite order, but I find that the old=new is more
> analogous to attlist definitions. Of course, it's less analogous to
> assignment statements, so maybe we can't win. An arrow ":=" or "<-" or
> something would maybe make things clearer but it's too yucky... I'm not
> even sure about the "="...
I'm not sure I like teeny languages in CDATA ("old->new"). Why not just
document what's going on in the attribute name, ("pairs.old-xml"?), then
make the value a white-space delimited list of pairs?
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