What do we have to treat them differently?
Given following XML fragment:
<address city="NY">
<street>1234 Park Avenue.</street>
</address>
Why not treat both city attribute and street element the same so that both
of them can be accessed with following DOM script?
String city = address.getAttribute("city")
String street = address.getAttribute("street")
or even simpler in ECMAScript:
var city = address.city
var street = address.street
In other words, why not treat attributes as a specific type of child
element: unique and childless?
Best,
Don Park
Docuverse