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Re: Attributes VS Elements

• From: Philip Gooch <philg@e...>
• To: Sebastien Clement <sclement@n...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 23:01:29 +0100

There's an interesting discussion of this at:

http://www.xmleverywhere.com/newsletters/20000525.htm

Attributes vs elements = data-centric vs document-centric - it partly
depends on what you're modelling whether you use one or the other.
Generally, I'd say you should use elements for content that is visible to
the author/editor/final reader, and use attributes for metadata relating to
the content, but it really depends on what you are doing.

Phil 


> From: Sebastien Clement <sclement@n...>
> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 15:49:28 -0400
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Attributes VS Elements
> 
> Is there a good resource, or a best practices article, on when to use
> elements versus attributes in an XML document?
> 
> ----------
> Sébastien Clément
> Web Systems Architect - CBC/Radio-Canada
> 
> 
> 

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