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> Which of the following XML representations is better? If you assert > that one is better than another, please explain – in simple, concrete > terms – why it is better? There is rarely a single best answer in the absence of any sort of information about use cases. Given that all printf format specifications start with ‘%’ and ‘.’ is always the precision delimiter, I don’t think you gain anything from having them in the markup *and* it introduces the possibility of errors. (If you put ‘#’ in the start_of_specifier element, what does that mean?) One unanswered question in your examples is whether you intend to mark multiple flags up separately or as a group: <flag>+</flag> <flag>0</flag> or <flag>+0</flag> General guidelines: avoid ambiguity and avoid including text that can be generated. Those are the right answers except in circumstances where they aren’t, natch. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> https://nwalsh.com/ > Any sufficiently undocumented code is indistinguishable from magic. Attachment:
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