[lisper]

> Erik's dissmissal is ... not pejorative

Sorry, the phrase "incredibly stupid" is pejorative.

And I don't really care if his position is the result of years of experience. It's wrong nonetheless. There are certainly stupid things in SGML, but the attribute/element distinction is not one of them. (Or at least, it's not a no-brainer that this is one of the stupid things in SGML, so if you're going to claim that the attribute/element distinction is stupid you need to provide a cogent argument to support your position and not just proclaim it as self-evidently true.)