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

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 16:27, Costello, Roger L. <> wrote:
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> John Cowan wrote:
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> So he is arguing that the two components of a cost, the numeric part and the unit, each should be explicitly marked up.
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> Yes! That’s exactly what I am saying.
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So just to clarify, you are saying that

<Cost>
    <Currency>USD</Currency>
    <Amount>8.95</Amount>
</Cost>

is good, but for example


<Cost>
    <Currency type="iso4217">USD</Currency>
    <Amount type="decimal">8.95</Amount>
</Cost>

would be bad?

Would it make the first bad if the document had a dtd which defaulted
the type attributes so the two forms parsed in the same way?

David