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Probably the best forum for DTD questions is comp.text.sgml. After all, XML DTDs are SGML DTDs and people there have been making them for more than a decade. In fact, this very topic was covered recently. Use dejanews and look for the thread (mis!)named "Entities vs. Attributes" from around 1997/06/16 in the comp.text.sgml archive. Many of the points raised here are the same as there. This is a recurring question and perhaps deserves a section on the special topics page [1] of the SGML Web Page, maybe as part of a DTD design section. if its patron saint is willing. Here is what I am thinking of: <H3>On DTD Design</H3> <P>There are many heuristics for and opinions on proper DTD design. <UL> <LI>A recurring question is when to use attributes or sub-elements. This was discussed <A HREF="elements-attributes.html">in comp.text.sgml</A> and <A HREF="">in XML-DEV</A>. <LI>What constitutes an elegant DTD? In the summer of 1997, DTD designers discussed this in the comp.text.sgml thread titled "The Aesthetics of Document Type Design." </UL> Paul Prescod [1]http://www.sil.org/sgml/topics.html 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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