[SML] Whether to support Attribute or not?

[Pavel Velikhov]

"Clark C. Evans" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Joshua E. Smith wrote:
> > Sure, you can normalize this to:
> >
> > <Thing>
> >  <Id>foo</Id>
> > </Thing>
> >
> > But, well.... yuck.  This is just... strange.
> >
> > Doesn't it strike you as perverse to dive into the sub-elements of an
> > element to get a handle to the parent?
> 
> Yes it does.  It also requires that the _entire_ element be read
> in (till its end tag is encountered) just in the case that a child
> provides details which modify the parent -- in this case, the
> parent's identifier.
> 

But every child provides details that modify the parent.
Consider this element:

<home>
	<zip>91111</zip>
</home>

And then the following element:

<home>
	<local_schools>
		<school>S1</school>
		<school>S2</school>
		...
	</local_schools>
</home>

Same problem here, right? Every child modifies the parent.
Should not these cases be all semantically equivalent?

Pavel Velikhov

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