Andy,
>When would I use an attribute to hold a value versus xmlText?
When it makes sense to do so. ;)
There really is no absolute rule to this, but generally speaking I leave
xmlText for when I need to define large amounts of content that are static
and use attributes to define very specific aspects of the tag (which are
normally single word values.)
Example 1:
// doesn't make sense
<p value="Imagine this as a really long paragraph." />
// makes sense
<p>
Imagine this as a really long paragraph.
</p>
Example 2:
// makes sense
<item id="S0023JC" />
// doesn't make as much sense
<item>S0023JC</item>
If you're really not sure what makes the most sense, try and think of an
example HTML/CFML tag that is similar in nature and follow what they do (not
that those are always correct.)
-Dan
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