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> > any words of wisdom regarding: > > 1) having an extra collection layer in the xml tree, > 2) having PCDATA vs. having a distinct "comment" or > "description" element child: Firstly, the extra markup can be used to impose extra validity constraints, which means you application has to do less checking. Secondly, the extra markup can make XSL stylesheets a lot easier to write. (In fact, without it they can be impossible...) So if you're auto-generating the XML and if space isn't at a premium I would include the extra tags. If it's manually edited it's a different story... 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/ 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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