Thus spoke Terry Allen (at least at 03:53 PM 11/29/96 -0800)
>DC's emphasis on semantics aside from
>syntax is a great virtue, and "subelement" reeks of SGML. "Qualifier"
>is nicely neutral among means of qualifying.
Qualifier is fine by me.
>How rich a syntax must be required to support DC? Are
>qualifiers on qualifiers contemplated? (in SGML terms, are those
>"subelements" elements or attributes?)
We have not had qualifiers on qualifiers up to now, lets not extend the
model any more. So, in SGML-ese, Qualifiers are attributes, not elements.
Later,
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