[SML] Whether to support Attribute or not?

[rev-bob at gotc.com]

> >   Consider:   
> >     
> >     <element att="val"> <content/> </element>
> 
> How about this?
> 
> 	<element <att>val</att>> <content/> </element>
> 
> This is for sure not XML/SGML, but it generalizes the recursive
> pattern.  If you want an attribute on the attribute, you write:
> 
> 	<element <att <att-of-att>subvalue</att-of-att>>val</att>>  ...

This might be the right time to note that the iHTML server-side scripting package 
operates in exactly that manner.  An actual scrap of code (from my site) looks like:

<iSET sbit=`<iRANDOM dbname="gotc" table="SQLcode">`>

The main bugaboo in using this structure, at least where iHTML is concerned, concerns 
quotes.  The above works fine, because the back-sq's (a) properly contain the unparsed 
iRANDOM tag and (b) do not appear in the data which replaces that tag.  However, this 
can get really nasty if you're not careful; it helps if you actually break down the recursion 
into successive statements.



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