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> My question is, >given the "nothing to markup" scenario, which is more appropriate?, when >is each >more appropriate?, and why?: > ><blah>1234</blah> > >or > ><blah value="1234" /> > >Any general guidelines? > In my view: XML (or any other Tag-language) will be used to express: - Datamodels of a part of the universe, which handle the relationships between entities with the Model. It defines the Context of the information. - with Terminology (a set of Tags) which give names to the entities - with Rules to obey. It will be likely that the above examples will be Tagged like: <blah> <number> 1234 </number> </blah> if rules of the model allow it allow it. or <blah> <ASCII> 1234 </ASCII> <blah> <blah> will be an entity from a Model indicating a context <number> will be an atribute indicating how things are coded Attributes will be derived from other Models. 'Nothing to markup' is nothing. It equals chaos. Greetings Gerard Freriks Gerard Freriks,huisarts, MD C. Sterrenburgstr 54 3151JG Hoek van Holland the Netherlands Telephone: (+31) (0)174-384296/ Fax: -386249 Mobile : (+31) (0)6-54792800 ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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