On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Every now and then, people (not me) want to represent a Map<K,V> in XML by
using
> s.th. like
> B  <map>
> B  B  <k1>v1</k1>
> B  B  <k2>v2</k2>
> B  B  ...
> B  </map>

I would prefer a structure like below:

<map>
   <entry>
      <key>k1</key>
      <value>v1</value>
   </entry>
   <entry>
      <key>k2</key>
      <value>v2</value>
   </entry>
</map>

your example would fail, if say there's a key like:
<1k>v1</1k>

(because, "1k" is not a valid XML name)


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi