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Re: [GNUe-dev] GCD samples
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Derek Neighbors |
Subject: |
Re: [GNUe-dev] GCD samples |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:46:53 -0700 |
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 10:06, Reinhard Mueller wrote:
> Hi, Jason!
>
> Am Sam, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Jason Cater um 18:59:
> > <property name="code" type="string(3)" ...>
> >
> > Why have type= be a composite attribute, instead of having two separate
> > attributes: type="string" size="3" ?
>
> Acutally, both ways work. While the seperate type and size tags are
> certainly the "clean" way, we found the string(3) approach much easier
> if you *hand* *author* the gcd's in an editor.
This makes virtually no sense to me. If you want "easy" to hand edit,
why on earth use XML at all? Seems silly to choose a format (xml) that
allows to describe data in certain way. Then circumvent that very way
in order to make it easy to hand write files.
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