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"Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >You are really just repeating the tag v. attribute argument that has been >recently aired on the XML list. > >After numerous postings, and a review of the SGML postings going back to >1980, the consensus was, there is no correct or best way, so just do what >suits your fancy!! Sorry, I didnt intend to rehash this old ground, and I've updated my HTML page to point to a very good summary of that debate by Robin Cover: http://www.sil.org/sgml/elementsAndAttrs.html What I was really wondering about but failed to make explicit was how elements should be related/nested, and *in particular* whether the XSL processing model favours some designs over others. Robin Cover's references contain good advice to people like me with database and o-o background (rather than an SGML background), as does his inheritance discussion summary at http://www.sil.org/sgml/arch-inherit.html but I still worry that I am missing something fundamental about designing XML for XSL. >I suspect though that if you benchmarked your code you would find that the >tag method is faster!! Yes, but that is probably implementation dependent - functions to access attributes could be very efficient depending on the data structures used by the XSL processor. Kent Fitch Ph: +61 2 6276 6711 ITS CSIRO Canberra Australia kent.fitch@xxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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