On 27-Sep-2007, at 08:32, Daniel Pittman wrote:
In other words: SGML would be vastly better without attributes at all,
ever. They are a waste of space, time and effort.
They're identical to nested tags, and they're more compact, HOW THE
HELL ARE THEY A WASTE OF SPACE?
Of course things like <b/bold text/ are also more compact than
<b>bold text</b>, therefore they got sucked out of XML.
Hateful buggers.
I'm surprised XML retained <tag/> or <tag>foo</> instead of forcing
<tag></tag> and <tag>foo</tag>.
