However, if you wanted to distinguish between a
family and given name, and maybe add an honorific
or an accreditation, you might want to use an element
with subelements for the author. Using a comma in
the name requires a second-level parse. An advantage
of using nested subelements is that you can avoid
a second level parse.
Otherwise, as I said, there is no "right" answer.
At 06:51 PM 4/6/98 -0400, Roy Tennant wrote:
>I've been trying to figure this out for a while with no success. It seems
>to me that there are several quite different ways one can encode
>information in XML. Are all of the following correct? When and why would
>you choose one over another? Does it matter? Thank you for your indulgence
>as I puzzle out what must surely be readily apparent to most of you.
>
>Example 1:
>---------
>
><BOOK TITLE="The Call of the Wild" AUTHOR="London, Jack"\>
>
>Example 2:
>---------
>
><BOOK AUTHOR="London, Jack">The Call of the Wild</BOOK>
>
>Example 3:
>---------
>
><BOOK>
> <TITLE>The Call of the Wild</TITLE>
> <AUTHOR>London, Jack</AUTHOR>
></BOOK>
>
>Thanks,
>Roy Tennant
>
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