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Re: Deciding XML structure

From: Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 8/5/2007 5:12:00 PM

Martin Honnen wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>> Basic question (I think); when is it best to use one element with 
>> attributes vs. one without and child elements? For example:
>> <book title="Some Book" author="Anderson, Jones"></book>
>> versus:
>>
>> <book>
>>    <title>Some Book</title>
>>    <author>Anderson</author>
>>    <author>Jones</author>
>> </book>
>>
>> Is there a rule or best practice?
> 
> If you have several values like for the authors then I stronly suggest 
> to choose child elements as that way when the XML is parsed you get 
> access to each author while the attribute only gives you one attribute 
> value "Anderson, Jones" and XML parsers/tools (DOM, XSLT/XPath 1.0) will 
> not assist you in accessing items in that value.

A good point, especially given the lack of support for separately 
accessing the values of an ENTITIES attribute in XSLT/XPath, something 
which the publishing industry had been hoping 2.0 would pay attention to.

///Peter


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