When is an attribute an attribute?

[Frank Boumphrey]

Apart from the wrong type of slash in example 1, a typo I'm sure<g>, they
are all legal in XML.
Which you use ,I guess is up to you.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Tennant <rtennant at library.berkeley.edu>
To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 3:54 PM
Subject: When is an attribute an attribute?


>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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