[Dev] attributes in the xml syntax

[Ted Leung]

On Jan 25, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Alec Flett wrote:

>  Another question:
>  it reasonable/accepted/endorsed to say
>
>  <SomeItem itsName="foo" blockName="foo" selectedItemAttribute="bar"/>
>
>  instead of
>
>  <SomeItem itsName="foo">
>    <blockName>foo</blockName>
>    <selectedItemAttribute>bar</selectedItemAttribute>
>  </SomeItem>

Which one you do is a matter of what you are trying to accomplish?

>
>  and so forth?
>  i.e. is it correct to assume that these three statements are 
> identical?
>  * <tag attr="value"/>
>  * <tag><attr>value</attr></tag>
>  * <tag><attr value="value"/></tag> (I just saw this for the first 
> time yesterday)

None of these are the same.

1. an element named "tag" with an attribute named "attr".  The value of 
the attr attribute is value
2. an element named "tag" with a child element named "attr" whose 
content is value
3. an element named "tag" with a child element named "attr" with an 
attribute named "value".  The value of the "value" attribute is value

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