Re: subelements

[Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>]

Johan Rydberg writes:
>Why are configurations named with an subelements of <source> or <target>
>and not text payload of the element?  This should make it impossible to
>have a configuration named "config", for example.

I think you have it backwards, or I'm misunderstanding you.

By using named subelements, we allow extensibility such as:

  <source>
    <divine-inspiration xmlns="http://di.example.net"/>
  </source>

and:

  <source>
    <mythology xmlns="http://myth.example.net";>greek</mythology>
  </source>

or even:

  <source>
    <file>config</file>
  </source>

Thanks,
 Phil

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