Re: text format stability

[Jefferson Ogata <Jefferson.Ogata () noaa gov>]

Michael Richardson wrote:
>     Guy> for the PDML specification.
>
>   I think it is an abuse of XML... nothing is actually marked up. 
>
>   Everything seems to be given as attributes, i.e.:
>
> <field name="verhlen" pos="15" show="45" showname="Version and header Length" size="1" value="45">
>
>   rather than:
>
> <field name="verhlen" pos="15" show="45" showname="Version and header Length" size="1">0x45</field>

Using attributes makes it slightly easier to process stuff with XSLT. When you 
use an <xsl:value-of select='some-text-node'/> you have to be more careful about 
intercepting all subnodes with another template; otherwise you get all the text 
nodes in the subtree instead of just the topmost one. When everything is marked 
up as attributes, you just do <xsl:value-of select='@value'/> and you're done.

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Jefferson Ogata <Jefferson.Ogata () noaa gov>
NOAA Computer Incident Response Team (N-CIRT) <ncirt () noaa gov>

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