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Peter, you could call that type attribute xsi:type so that the content gets validated... and retain your element names? Christian > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:37:37 +0000, Christian Nentwich > <christian@s...> wrote: >> Roger, >> >> let's see: >> - The first approach does not scale - it will get too complex when >> you then want to reuse your invoice to build a yet larger model. Too >> much indirection to resolve. >> - The second approach does not impress me at all. It is weakly >> typed, not schema validatable, and the tags are not >> self-descriptive. Heaven help the support guy who has to pull that >> document. > I think my other replies make it clear that you'd want at least a type > attribute. Note, however, if you're building a large complex system > the issue isn't documents, it's data transport between layers. Eg, > for the support person dealing with building a metadata driven GUI the > second instance is a whole lot easier to deal with than having to code > for 1000's of individual element names... > <snip/>
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