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> - it breaks the contract (implicit, I think, in both HTML and XML) that > the text of the document is represented by the content of its elements In a strict sense yes. (XML actually says "All text that is not markup constitutes the character data of the document"). But I don't read that as saying information should be held in its final presentation form: quite the contrary. The whole aim is to move as far as possible towards representing the abstract information content rather than the visible image of the document. Therefore, dates should be held in a canonical form. And of course it matters not one whit whether they are held as attributes or element content, any self-respecting XML processor should be able to handle either. (Though I have discovered one great advantage of using attributes is that a SAX parser can't split them up for you - I've written lots of buggy applications by forgetting that element content can be split, however short it is). Mike Kay 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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