I'm not 100% sure but I'm taking a good guess that it's the best way
to ensure functionality for the config files remains reasonable
similar. You can't, for example, specify attributes for
Zend_Config_Array nor Zend_Config_Ini without significantly altering
the way that they're structured. So using elements alone is a
convenient and easily understood convention.
I'm afraid to hear that Zend_Config ignores any element attribute.
Perhaps this is because of its SimpleXML origin. I'm not certain on
this.
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