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   RE: [xml-dev] A standard approach to glueing together reusableXML frag

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Not exactly.   One has to decide when mapping out of an information system of a different
type using XML which properties one must preserve losslessly, and then the choice of
elements vs attributes is not arbitrary.  I gave an example of that in a different email
when comparing object oriented design where fields can have objects to XML design
where attributes cannot have elements.  At first, these appear to be incompatible, then
pushing the containment relationship of fields and objects to the elements and the
description up one metalevel, <object><field><object></object></field></object>,
one can make it work.  Going in the other direction and keeping the mapping
of fields to elements introduces microparsing and hiding types inside the
attribute values.  It is semantically messy, but that is the choice some make
to keep the XML encoding looking as much like the object oriented encoding
as possible.
 
Loose, yes, but not arbitrary.  One does have to understand, for example, the
structural constraints of XML.
 
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From: Jeff Tash [mailto:tash@flashmapsystems.com]
For instance, the choice between when to use elements versus when to use attributes is essentially arbitrary. 
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