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I'm not a expert here, but i tend to use as a rule of thumb something like If it's a value used to identify nodes, use as attributes if you're going to manipulate that data, use as child nodes. On 9/28/05, Soren Kuula <dongfang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > One of the ideas of using XML at all, instead of just cooking your own > small language, is that reliable and unambigous parsing comes for free. > > With > > > > > <problem > > models="long list" > > software_releases="long list" > > > > > you are throwing out some of the advantage -- you again have to parse > manually, probably introducing a bug somewhere. > > > instead of > > > > <problem> > > <models> > > <model>...</model> (many times) > > </models> > > <software_releases> > > <rel>...</rel> (many times) > > </software_releases> > > </problem> > > This is much nicer in that respect, and if you use XSL you'll probably > have something working much sooner. That's a real performance > consideration too :) > > Soren
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