Allen Pollard wrote: > why in most cases ? after all its just transfer of data from one app to > another.
For transfer between apps where no human has to ever read it, the attribute style is fine. For saving to a file, where a human may want to read/edit, then the nested tag style is more readable. In either case, you could have a flag to write the xml in either style, so for debugging your app you could use the more verbose style, and for production the more terse style. I bet compression on the xml would bring the size difference into the meaningless range. When given a choice, and all else being equal, I'll choose readability over terseness every time. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
