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Re: XML's style

From: ram@-----.---------.-- (------ ---)
To: NULL
Date: 7/4/2006 5:10:00 PM

Joe Kesselman <keshlam-nospam@c...> writes:
>This is a FAQ. See past discussion. In general, use attributes when you 
>want to help refine the description of something, child elements when 
>you want to give the information it contains -- BUT remember that 
>attribute values are unstructured, and if at any point you're going to 
>want to have structured data it's going to have to be an element.  Also 
>remember that attributes only allow a single instance per element; if 
>there will ever be more than one, that too pushes you toward elements.

  Unfortunately, this overwrites - or partly contradicts - the
  first rule of thumb. Therefore, the situation is somewhat
  confusing.

  (For this reason, I have developed the notation »Unotal« with
  a Java-implementation [released under the GPL], which allows
  structured and repeated attributes.)


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