RFC: Attributes and XML-RPC

[Mark Nutter]

At 10:10 AM 09/22/99 +1000, Marcus Carr wrote:
>The two options that come to mind are either:
>
><chapter>
>    <security>u</security>
>    <title>Wheeled Armoured Toys</title>
>    <para0>
>       <security>u</security>
>       <para>WATs are your friend...</para>
>          <security>u</security>

(I think this line is superfluous...)

>    </para0>
></chapter>
>
>... which requires the evaluation of a child element before the 
>application is able to
>understand how to deal with an elements such as para0 or para, (presumably 
>the values are
>inherited)

Whether you evaluate the security level first because it's an attribute or 
whether you evaluate it first because it's the first child element, you're 
still going to evaluate it before you evaluate the (other) child 
elements.  Why/how is it worse to deal with it first as a child element 
rather than dealing with it first as an attribute?

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Mark Nutter, <mnutter at fore.com>
Internet Applications Developer
FORE Systems
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