On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:22:29 -0400
"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > this *isn't* the same to me: attributes are for metadata and tag
> > > contents are for data
>
> That's right. If XML attributes were always used to describe the
> *tags*, and not the data, there would be (almost) no problem. At least
> we'd know where the data are. But it's not uncommon to see XML like
>
> <record col1:"a", col2:"b">
> <col3>c</col> </record>
This morning's example In Real Life comes from an IBM DB2
db2dsdriver.cfg. It's all attributes and no data:
<configuration>
<dsncollection>
<!-- 64-bit DSN alias -->
<dsn alias="testdb" name="testdb" host="localhost" port="50000">
</dsn>
<databases>
<database name="testdb" host="localhost" port="50000">
</database>
</databases>
</configuration>
--jkl
