Re: Problems about the Spectrum Data Model from the view of a Web Service programmer

From: Norman Gray <norman-at-astro.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:18:11 +0100

On 2006 Sep 15 , at 16.56, Rob Seaman wrote:

(a propos of things he didn't think ought to be forbidden (I think))

> 	documents containing:

> - non-empty elements with attributes
> - elements enclosing both sub-elements and literal values
The question of elements-vs-attributes has been a rolling fight for
at least the last 20 years. It is probably unlikely to be resolved here.

And just by the way, XML design goal number 6 was `XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably clear' -- it's not just for the machines.

Norman

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Received on 2006-09-15Z18:19:02