Re: [xml-dev] Don’t create elements with simple content and attributes

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:43:02 -0600, you wrote:

| "Principles of XML design: When to use elements versus attributes", 2004:
| https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-eleatt/index.html

An old discussion on this list.

    http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200205/threads.html#01027
    http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200205/threads.html#01034

In general, avoid placing "data", or any kind of analytic content, in
attribute values.  That is, attributes should be used for "metadata"
only.  Some SGML concepts didn't make the cut for XML.  Data content
notations in DTDs would take care of a lot of corner cases.