Re: a few short notes

On Feb 3, 2004, at 12:16 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> Also, it just doesn't make any sense.
>
> Why is it <input type=blah> but <title>blah</title> ? Something like 
> input="blah" title="blah" would be much better.
>

Right off the bat?

1) multi-line entries: your stuff has to special case input="blah
blah
blah
blah"

2) boundary characters: your stuff has to special case input="blah said 
"blah to you, blah"!"

(parse THAT properly!)

Those kind of special case encodings pretty nicely summarizes the 
heritage of SMTP, too, adn what we want to get away from. Because you 
start out with a fairly simple and 'easy' scheme, and then as people 
start using it, things come up and you write a patch to handle this 
special case, a hack to fix that, an extension for this, an extension 
for that, and then...

XML has very limited and well-defined ways to deal with these kinds of 
issues, so that you don't have to keep reinventing the wheel and hope 
everyone else uses the same wheel (which we don't).