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 _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
