[Dev] attributes in the xml syntax

[Ted Leung]

Yikes...

Is it really necessary to have two ways to do the same thing?

On Jan 25, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Alec Flett wrote:

>
>  Sorry I meant this in the context of the parcel loader - not general 
> XML. From talking to a few folks:
>  * <a b="c"/> is one thing
>  and the following two things are the same as each other, but 
> different than the above
>  * <a><b>c</b></a>
>  * <a><b value="c"/></a>
>
>  So at least the latter of those two is a little bit less verbose.
>
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