Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xmlschema-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - RE: Attribute Usage [Thread Next] RE: Attribute UsageTo: <MCRAWFORD@---.--->, <xmlschema-dev@--.---> Date: 3/15/2005 10:19:00 AM Use attributes if you want to provide additional clarification that a human reader might require to understand the data. That's an interesting inversion of the usual rule for document-oriented XML, where the convention is to use elements for things that the human reader is expected to read, and attributes for the metadata which is typically interpreted by software. Michael Kay | ||||||
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