Daniel Pittman wrote:
One of us must be. Perhaps it was my sarcasm, perhaps I completely
misunderstood your point. To help clear this up:
There is no difference in the information conveyed using a child tag or
an attribute of a tag.
The only difference between the two, in SGML, is that
Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com writes:
Daniel Pittman wrote:
One of us must be. Perhaps it was my sarcasm, perhaps I completely
misunderstood your point. To help clear this up:
There is no difference in the information conveyed using a child tag or
an attribute of a tag.
The only
Daniel Pittman writes:
Because XML isn't, you know, self-framing or anything.
It's not entirely self-framing, no. Here is a well-formed XML
instance:
a/
?a?
Here is another:
?b?
b/
If you concatenate them, you can't tell which PI goes with which
instance. (Though the problem goes
On 27 Sep 2007, at 23:52, Michael G Schwern wrote:
As insane as it is that anyone would pick XML as a human data
format. I'm
looking at YOU Ant!
human data format?
Ant uses XML as a *programming language syntax*. That is completely
insane.
Happily, the original author of Ant seems to
