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At 08:17 AM 2/5/99 -0800, Peter Seibel wrote: >Is there an XML philosophy (or an SGML philosophy for that matter) about >when to use attributes vs when to use elements when desigining a document >type.... For an SGML view, here's a comment (dated 28 Apr 1992) from C.M. Spielberg-McQueen: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/attrSperberg92.html Last April this was the topic of a thread here on XML-DEV. You can check the archives, or see it all in one package here: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/elementAttr9804.html Both references are from Robin Cover's excellent (and frequently updated) SGML/XML site, obviously located at http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/. In general, one thing to remember is that (at least for simple XML applications) attribute values are "invisible" when the document is viewed. Best, JES ==================== John E. Simpson Just XML (ISBN 0-13-943417-8) Available now from Prentice Hall PTR 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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