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Re: [newbie] Mapping a Map 101?

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• Subject: Re: [newbie] Mapping a Map 101?
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:00:09 -0500
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> however, my atavistic dislike of angle brackets took over and I ended up 
> removing all the structural information specific to a dictionary:

That's probably the wrong way to use XML.

> I'm not sure if I follow this line of reasoning... after all, the 
> "raison d'être" of an element is to provide meta-data about the 
> content.

Sure.  Is it more important that the value of an integer, or that the 
value is, well, a value?

 >.. should attributes be viewed as meta-data about the content or
> the element itself?

Welcome to an xml-dev permathread.

> What's the benefit of using an element attribute to define the type 
> versus using a different element altogether?

Generic tools and xpath expressions, etc., only have to know about one 
tag.  "All entries with the value 10" -- do you care if it's a string or 
an int?

	/r$

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