Daniel Fagerstrom <danielf <at> nada.kth.se> writes:
> > <xyz>
> > <jx:strip-whitespace>
> > ${abc.name}
> > <nested-tag><jx:preserve-whitespace> ${abc.description}
> > </jx:preserve-whitespace></nested-tag>
> > </jx:strip-whitespace>
> > </xyz>
This looks very awful. Not that I need this feature, but ...
> Might be that it is awful, but that goes for the rest of JXTG as well
> (or any XML language), it is still not a reason to complicate life for
> users by mixing attribute and element syntax. Furthermore, I doubt that
> what you do above is a common use case.
I don't think that the above syntax complicates users' life in comparison to
attribute syntax. Just compare it to namespace declaration in XML:
<element xmlns="myNamespace">
<element xmlns="yourNamespace">
<element xmlns="someonesElseNamespace">
<element/>
</element>
</element>
</element>
Now imagine this one with namespace elements ...
If there is a clear separation between concerns (i.e. mapping elements to
instructions and attributes to what Leszek called processing directives (btw,
XML also knows 'processing instructions')) I see no problems using attributes.
Jörg
