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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Dean Snyder wrote:
> My question is why not just use empty tags for everything? And if that
> works why have non-empty tags at all? (I'm aware of the argument for XML
> parsing simplicity.)
>
> One of my main concerns is data archivability and recoverability, even
> data fragment recoverability. For these reasons I want metadata that is
> human readable, inline, and practically self-documenting.
Elements vs. attribute discussions have been going on for a very long
time. You might want to look at this URL for some insight:
http://xml.coverpages.org/elementsAndAttrs.html
Using only empty elements doesn't work well for manuscripts or
documents because documents have mixed content.
Good luck!
Betty
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