Re: Re: XML & ConTeXt -- handling many conventions

["Pawel Jackowski na Onet" <jackos1@poczta.onet.pl>]

Hi!

> Hello Pawe³ (I, hope your name comes out OK)[...]

Actually no, but don't worry. I'm aware that polish 'lslash' may not be
displayed properly. But using polish characters is the only way
to protect them from extinction. I will think about some compromise.

> The element <chapter title="First Chapter"> is wrong.  By burying your
> title in an attribute you're making it neither easily searchable nor
> useble by other applications.

That is what I said to my boss. The problem is that J have to build
something more or less universal because
I don't known who will prepare XML documents and which convention will be
used.

> The general rule of thumb for when to use attributes and when to use
> elements is: use elements for presentable data and attributes for
> system data.  In this case where you're presenting the title "First
> Chapter" to the context-processor to be marked up as a chapter title,
> it is definitely presentable data, and therefore it belongs in an
> element.

Thanks, I will remember. It looks convincing.


Regards, Pawe/l