This thread has decended into a slightly pointless and certainly bandwidth stealing argument about Language and spelling, so I thought I would bring it back onto a computing track: On 6 January 2011 19:42, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > <set mode='oldphart'> > > I probably learned how to use language like that long before you were > born, and certainly before I went to 'Nam. Show some respect to your > elders, you young whippersnapper! > > </mode> Technically if you are opening the <set> tag, you need to close it with </set>. If this is a <mode> tag, then it should have been opened as something like <mode value="oldphart"> - this XML is much more invalid than the spelling of voilà and I don't understand how this has escaped criticism so far. It's also good practise to: 1) Encapsulate character data in <!CDATA tags, so that the XML parser doesn't misinterpret special characters: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp 2) Define a schema, so we know how elements such as <set> and <mode> are defined: http://www.w3schools.com/schema/schema_intro.asp So I think what you really meant was: <mode xmlns="http://www.yourwebsite.com"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.yourwebsite.com/yournamespace"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.yourwebsite.com/mode.xsd"; value="oldphart"> <![CDATA[ I probably learned how to use language like that long before you were born, and certainly before I went to 'Nam. Show some respect to your elders, you young whippersnapper! ]]> </mode> If it is of any interest at all, I was born in 1980 - i.e. *after* the Vietnam War. XML was of course born more than a decade after that, however SGML from which it descended is from some time in the 1970s and may therefore actually pre-date some of the later parts of this 'Nam of which you speak. Of course, I will know nothing of this because I am not an American and I can't play the viola and age is so very important in modern times. -- Sam -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
