Content v. attribute

[John Cowan]

Vrijland, Jacco TRC-OGRS/2 wrote:

> In this previous structure I have not
> yet incorporated a general description of the data (possibly quite a
> long string).

One good reason for modeling long descriptions as character data
rather than attribute values is to incorporate markup into it.
Descriptions are often the better for a bit of rich text: they
need things like emphasis and even hyperlinks.  For a DTD building
block that provides such things, see
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/ibtwsh.dtd .

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