My question: - What is your justification for your statement?
" > | Microsoft uses a lot of XML documents in its products and many of > them use >> elements to contain values. In fact if you go to W3Cschools you >> will see >> the majority of examples using element values, and this is a resource >> teaching the basics of XML. >> >> > For instructional documents aimed at those learning XML it is nice and > simple. If however you are looking to create a bullet proof > serialization in XML where the values matter then it is a poor design." In my opinion things can equally expressed in attributes and the 'elements', as this is subject to (local) agreements. Although CEN/tc251 has published a report (CEN/tc251 TS 15211) some years ago where they proposed to express data values as an attribute, I have my doubts. I think it is more correct to reserve attributes to express meta-data about the date value in the 'XML-element'. Attributes to express: language, coding system, precision, etc. Gerard Freriks -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, MD Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands T: +31 252544896 M: +31 620347088 E: gfrer at luna.nl Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755 On Nov 30, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Adam Flinton wrote: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20071130/274fb7fe/attachment.html>
