DOCBOOK: Elements and attributes (was Re: XML Schemas and docbookdocuments)

2001-12-15 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Karl Eichwalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | article | | classwhitepaper/ | | I've seen this suggested elsewhere recently. Specifically, that we | could introduce a new syntax using some prefix character for | attribute elements. | |

Re: DOCBOOK: Elements and attributes (was Re: XML Schemas and docbookdocuments)

2001-12-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:24 15/12/2001 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: In other words, attributes should be reserved for lists of tokens, numbers, simple datatypes, etc. One nice consequence of this rule is that the need for entity references (most frequently character entity references) in attribute values is