xml-dev - xml style questions

["Mark D. Anderson" <mda@discerning.com>]

before you scream, this isn't about style sheets, and it
isn't about attributes vs. elements.
rather, this is more how to structure your document/data.

any words of wisdom regarding:

1) having an extra collection layer in the xml tree, like
<root><things><thing></thing><thing></thing></things><another></another></root>
vs.
<root>><thing></thing><thing></thing><another></another></root>

2) having PCDATA vs. having a distinct "comment" or "description" element child:
<thing a="1" b="2">
this is the description of this thing
<some_child></some_child>
</thing>
vs.
<thing a="1" b="2">
<desc>this is the description of this thing</desc>
<some_child></some_child>
</thing>

-mda



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