- From: Paul Grosso <paul@arbortext.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 18:59:43 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
I might be missing something here. I'll give my thoughts hoping that I haven't badly misunderstood things (and expecting to be elucidated if I have misunderstood things). As has been discussed for years in SGML circles and elsewhere and is, I'm sure, obvious to all on this list, what's made an attribute and what's made element content for any given element type is somewhat arbitrary. Since SGML syntax is designed to give structure to elements and not to attributes, if you want structure, use elements. I do not see the advantage of this proposal, and I see lots that concerns me. I get the sense that at least one reason behind this proposal is the idea that element content is somehow "something to be displayed" and attribute content is not. I do not feel this is true, and I would not want us to add structure to attributes to accomplish what style sheets should do. If another motivation is related to data typing, I'd prefer we work on a way (beyond XML-lang, but perhaps some additional spec) to data type element content (perhaps as well as attribute values) rather than to add structure to atributes. paul
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