Endtag attributes

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Anders W. Tell
| 
| As a part of a small R&D project Im I trying to look into the issues
| of elements vs. attributes and having attributes in endtags
| (im know its outside current xml standard).
| 
| Is there anyone that could point me to research /papers/discussion on
| the net ?

I doubt that there is anything, but if there is you can find it at

<URL:http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/>


Some cons I thought of:

 - additional complexity in APIs and syntaxes, or, if these are kept
   as they are, in parsers
 - endtag attributes are not available until the entire element has
   been parsed (and it may be _very_ large), so that if the values
   influence the treatment of the element contents in any way, this
   may cause performance problems
 
The only pro I can think of is pretty far-fetched:

 - might be easier to generate markup from some kinds of applications,
   since attribute values would not have to be determined until after
   the element contents had been written out

--Lars M.






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