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Re: Matching Attributes with @
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- Subject: Re: Matching Attributes with @
- From: lachance at chass dot utoronto dot ca (Francois Lachance)
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 08:20:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
>
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, Kay Michael wrote:
>
> > And if that seems absurd, just substitute some non-biological words like
> > "controller" and "component" for "parent" and "child", and it doesn't seem
> > so bad.
>
> I must be getting punchy. Would I be pardoned for punning that, in
> effect, all attributes are bastards, then?
>
> Offered as a laugh and as thanks to everyone who's helped so much.
>
> :-()
>
> jr
Pardon granted...:) but conclusion of illegitemacy not ...
<soma type="element">
<nodetype type="attribute">
<metaphor>bastard
<remark>contains traces of the legal notion of child</remark>
</metaphor>
<metaphor>test tube baby
<remark>still contains traces of the biological notion of child</remark>
</metaphor>
<metaphor>test tube culture
<remark>interesting how a petri dish can stand in loco parentis</remark>
<remark>few would ascribe child status to the contents of petri
dishes</remark>
</metaphor>
</nodetype>
<nodetype type="text">
<metaphor>child</metaphor>
</nodetype>
</soma>
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Francois Lachance
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