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** Reply to message from John.OSullivan@c... on Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:06:29 +0100 Dear John, I would suggest having an enclosing tag, but not "items". Basically, if you do not have an enclosing tag for each items, you force onto the <item> tag a semantic assumption that all items are part of what is being purchased. In the short term, that may be fine, but "item" is such a common idea that you may want to re-use it for something different somewhere down the track (as other posters have already pointed out). However, if you must enclose <item> tags with something, then <items> is not an ideal choice, because it tells you nothing of added value. Instead, how about something like a <contents> or <manifest> tag, which really sets the context for the items? I'm happy to discuss this further if you like, since Reuters has an interest in FpML. Cheers, Tony. > <items> > <item partNum="872-AA"> > <!-- detail elided --> > </item> > <item partNum="926-AA"> > <!-- detail elided --> > </item> > </items> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd. *************************************************************************** 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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