From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a26758eec3c2e1ad X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-06 08:06:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.columbus.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CFF7AAB.F5B64132@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Use of XML for config files References: <3CFC5DB2.A21DCF61@cs.tu-berlin.de> <4519e058.0206041129.5b250124@posting.google.com> <3CFDBB4D.29DAADEF@cs.tu-berlin.de> <3CFE6281.1F07E497@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 15:06:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1023376019 66.75.151.160 (Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:06:59 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:06:59 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25405 Date: 2002-06-06T15:06:59+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > That is, (see Goldfarb/Prescod Sec 54.6) > it is up to the designer of the document type to decide what > to put in attributes and what to put in element content. They > suggest two non-exhaustive guiding criteria: Well, what you say is true and good. I was just pointing out that in theory, the *content* of a document is everything outside the < > and everything inside the < > is metadata. That is, you should get a comprehensible piece of text simply by deleting all the tags. Of course, once you're talking about things like configuration data and other such database-like stuff, rather than a readable document containing prose, you're no longer talking about documents, so there is a bit more flexibility. I think value is textual makes more sense and will likely require less quoting. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.