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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [libnftables PATCH] change XML output format to element better
 than attributes
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:34:13 +0100
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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.