Re: DOCBOOK: Okay

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ ERIC Lawson - x52010 <eric@bioeng.washington.edu> was heard to say:
| Now I wonder, because I was inclined to think what I wanted was an element
| rather than an attribute, whether such an attribute is appropriate.  
| Structurally, the initial portion of an ordered list that is continued is
| distinct from an ordered list that is not continued; yet the syntax
| doesn't differentiate.  This is why I expected an element, and didn't even
| think to look for an attribute.

Well, there's no hard and fast rule about the distinction between
attributes and elements. (It's even possible to consider the content
of an element as an unordered set of nodes, one of which is anonymous;
and if you allowed attributes to contain element content...no, no,
nevermind :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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