• To: "Sebastian Rohde" <Rohde@b...>
• Subject: RE: Empty tag with attribute effective for parsing?
• From: "Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@b...>
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:03:57 +0300
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Empty tag with attribute effective for parsing?

> From: Sebastian Rohde [mailto:Rohde@b...] 


> > the second one for a variety of reasons (accessibility,
> > content re-use, stylesheet use, interoperability, etc...).
> But would it be faster? Or is there no difference in speed? 
> I don't know much about parsers and my greatest requirement 
> is speed(Mostly
> with the SAX parser).

Although I might agree with Sebastian on data for use in web pages, I
tent to use attributes whenever possible unless I need control over
whitespace. This results in smaller filesizes and seems more readable
(to me at least). I don't thing there is any important difference in
speed though...

Manos

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