- From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:40:57 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
My understanding of the recent discussion on architectures is: Architectures propose that the meaning of an element be separated from the element's name. That is, we have one thing, the name, that is used in the tag and referrs to some structural information in a DTD. Then we have an attribute. The attribute refers to something else that tells us what the element is really all about. In an extreme case, we could have something like <X> <X whatitreallyis="ORDERS"> <X whatitreallyis="LINEITEM"> <X whatitreallyis="NAME">Number, the Language of Science</X> <X whatitreallyis="AUTHOR">Dantzig</X> <X whatitreallyis="PRICE">5.95</X> <X whatitreallyis="ZONE">9</X> </X> </X> </X> Before I go further on this line of reasoning, I want to check: Do I have this much right or am I mixed up? --Andrew Layman AndrewL@microsoft.com
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