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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: Kurt Donath <kurt.donath@lmco.com>, xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:55:47 -0800
At 02:33 PM 3/19/99 -0500, Kurt Donath wrote:
>
>What is the criteria for selecting when to define data as an attribute
>or element in a DTD?
Personal taste. This is a religious issue. Attributes differ in
that
- they get white-space-normalized
- their order is not significant
- you can't have more than 1 with the same name on an element
- they can't contain any internal structure
If these things matter, your decision is made. If not, make it yourself.
Lesson: software writers have to be able/willing to pull information
out of either elements or attributes. -Tim
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