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I am somewhat of a newbie to XML (aren't most people I suppose) as an intermediary persistence framework for a distributed application I am writing and I am currently in the process of writing several DTD's. I looked at Microsoft's Channel Definition Format as well as many other DTD's and noticed that many people seem to embed what seemingly should be element content as a REQUIRED element attribute. In the case of CDF, most of the elements are EMPTY with one attribute named VALUE that is REQUIRED CDATA. I would think that in these cases an "author" tag should embed its content as follows <author>Mr John Smith</author>, rather than how Microsoft CDF embeds its content which is <author VALUE="Mr John Smith" />. Is this simply just a design preference, or else is there a concrete reason why what seemingly is content should be embedded as an attribute. If anyone could enlighten me as to what I should probably do here, then that would be greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance, Tyler xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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