Use of Tags

[John Cowan]

Jonathan Borden wrote:

> are there other pressing reasons why values (particularly
> table columns) ought be expressed as attributes rather than elements? 

The only place where attributes *must* be used is where naive (i.e. HTML)
browsers may be looking at the content, in which case attribute
values are typically hidden and #PCDATA content is typically
exposed.  This is the main rationale for allowing RDF statements
to use either attributes or elements.

Attributes are also modestly more compact.

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