Around 1 o'clock on Jan 22, Giovanni Pensa wrote:

> I simply love Lisp in XML.  Lisp people really hate it.

I felt it would be better to use XML for expressions than embed a separate 
expression parser in the upper levels.

> There has been a long debate on Attributes vs. Elements.  I think that,
> while you are free to do as you feel, text should be implemented as text
> nodes (that is, as content of elements) unless there's a good reason to
> make it an attribute value;  and the only reasons I do are: IDs, URIs
> and enumerations.

One (probably specious) reason was that I figured white space was more
likely to be preserved correctly within an attribute than with an element.
Given the xml:space attribute, perhaps this isn't an issue.  Can I ensure
that white space remains unmolested within family names?

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        Compaq Cambridge Research Lab


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