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to: JESPER SRENSEN
from: CHRIS CRANFORD
date: 2003-01-02 22:38:06
subject: Re: XML Nodelist Proposal

Yes, data which you have no need to "validate" should be
attributes; however
data which needs to be validated against a DTD should be elements of the
given node.

 wrote in message news:1041272576.716.0{at}tkdsoftware.com...
> s> Are there any guidelines as to where attributes are used over children?
>
> As I see it, attributes are good for stuff like "meta-data",
which is not
> really data but describes the data in some way, like version="17".
>
>   Jesper,
>   yeppe{at}enjoy.cc
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