From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Arturo Borrero <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [libnftables PATCH] change XML output format to element better than attributes
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:34:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130214083413.GB3343@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130213221513.11611.54603.stgit@nfdev.cica.es>
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:15:13PM +0100, Arturo Borrero wrote:
> Some of the problems with attributes are:
>
> * attributes cannot contain multiple values (child elements can)
> * attributes are not easily expandable (for future changes)
> * attributes cannot describe structures (child elements can)
> * attributes are more difficult to manipulate by program code
> * attribute values are not easy to test against a DTD
>
> Examples of this question at: http://www.w3schools.com/dtd/dtd_el_vs_attr.asp
Applied, thanks.
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2013-02-13 22:15 [libnftables PATCH] change XML output format to element better than attributes Arturo Borrero
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