s>> Are there any guidelines as to where attributes are used over children?

 JS> As I see it, attributes are good for stuff like
"meta-data", which is
 JS> not really data but describes the data in some way, like
version="17".

I think before we all go off on different tangents that we should develop
our structure first. How do we want to put together an xml nodelist. I
prefer to start from scratch and build something and then have tools to
create a compatible SLF nodelist.

What are your thoughts on this?

With best regards, Dale Ross.  E-mail: Dale.Ross{at}p1.f1.n379.z1.fidonet.org

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