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> Indeed it is. However, at the mundane level of style guides, Google > actually has a particularly fine style guide for the design of XML > documents which they grossly ignored in this case. Bad, bad Google. > > Disclaimer: I call it "particularly fine" because I wrote it, with > contributions from lots of people who were also at Google at the time. > > http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xmlstyle.html Point 5.1 is interesting: "All elements MUST contain either nothing, character content, or child elements. Mixed content MUST NOT be used. [Rationale: Many XML data models don't handle mixed content properly, and its use makes the element order-dependent. As always, textual formats are not covered by this rule.]" I'm guessing you mean don't use mixed content for data centric xml? Also 5.2 "XML elements that merely wrap repeating child elements SHOULD NOT be used. [Rationale: They are not used in Atom and add nothing.]" They really are helpful - I'm having to process xml like this at the moment and it is a bit tedious, as typically the output will have some form of wrapper. For example given: <item>a</item> <item>b</item> to output that as a html list: <ul> <il>a</li> ... you need to create the wrapper <ul> on the first occurrence of <item>, then process the rest from there. If there was an element <items> that merely wrapped the <item>s :) then it would make life a bit easier. -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com
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