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John, I agree very much with what Curt has said. Better to use a wrapper. DTDs get more complex as they develop, not less, and you are likely to wish you had put in the wrapper sooner or later! Robin At 12:58 pm -0600 5/4/00, Arnold, Curt wrote: >John OSullivan wrote (paraphrased): > >Should I do lists of items as: > ><purchaseOrder> > <items> > <item/> > <item/> > <item/> > </items> ></purchaseOrder> > >- or - > ><purchaseOrder> > <item/> > <item/> > <item/> ></purchaseOrder> > >------------ > >I think they key issue is whether you anticipate ever >needing to qualify the list of items with additional information >such as "allOrNone", "shipInOrder". Without an element that >corresponds to the list of items, then you would have to force >that information into the <purchaseOrder> element. > ...cut -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Robin La Fontaine, Monsell EDM Ltd (R&D Project Management, Engineering Data Exchange using XML, EDIF) Tel: +44 1684 592 144 Fax: +44 1684 594 504 or +44 870 054 2811 Email: robin@m... *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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