Patterns and Antipatterns in XML

[peter murray-rust <pm286@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have people discussed and created patterns and antipatterns in XML? I 
couldn't find much.

I'm conscious that when I create Schemas and instances there may be 
(in)felicities in the design. Certainly tools such as XSD allow for 
many different ways of achieving something. My own pattern is to use 
a very small subset and use other tools to add semantics, for 
instance. Other areas which I'd like insight into are XInclude, 
namespaces, possibly CDATA, etc. And perhaps some of these issues 
change between anti/pattern depending on the toolset.

P.



Peter Murray-Rust
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