Michael Kay wrote:
> <email><last-modified>2005-02-02</last-modified></email>
I don't like this example. As I see it the natural interpretation of
this construct is that the e-mail address is
[email protected]. I don't think this is a good use of a
mixed content. I would write this construct as:
<email></email>
<last-modified>2005-02-02</last-modified>
Here what's needed is better support for sibling elements.
A better example might be:
<email><username>fred</username>@<host>somewhere.com</host></email>
Here the username element contains exactly and only the username; the
host element contains exactly and only the host; and the email element
contains exactly and only the email address.
This would be even more compelling with street addresses, where many
different unplanned things can show up as part of the address in a
different country, and where the boundary whitespace might be used to
format the address when printed on an envelope.
--
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