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> > Hi Joe: > > This is an age-old discussion. I would like to point you > to Robin Covers website: > http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/elementsAndAttrs.html > > This has some good reading and some good opinions. I don't think this article addresses Joe's questions. I also know that Joe is enough of an old-timer that he's already familiar with most of the discussion in the Cover article. Joe's question is not whether, given a bit of discrete information it should be made into a child element or an attribute, but rather how much semantic information should be packed into generic identifiers: a much tougher question. Joe, BTW, I'm with you on selecting #2. #1 and #3 probably mean that at some point there will come a need to break down the semantics in the complex GI, and I think that GIs should be as close to atomic as possible for the expected life of the data. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use internal references in XML vocabularies - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerw orks/xml/library/x-tipvocab.html Universal Business Language (UBL) - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/l ibrary/x-think16.html EXSLT by example - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-exslt.html The worry about program wizards - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7238 Use rdf:about and rdf:ID effectively in RDF/XML - http://www-106.ibm.com/develo perworks/xml/library/x-tiprdfai.html Keep context straight in XSLT - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libra ry/x-tipcurrent.html Using SAX for Proper XML Output - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/12/py-xml.ht ml SAX filters for flexible processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml /library/x-tipsaxflex.html
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