Hallo Thomas,
Thomas Grill hat gesagt: // Thomas Grill wrote:
many thanks for your elaborations. I think though that your suggestions would add more redundancy, while i'd rather want to keep it as low as possible.
Yes, that's okay. I don't think this redundancy is necessary.
My primary concern is whether values should rather be given as
<value> <key>0</key> <data>1 2 3 hu ha</data> </value>
rather than currently <value key="0">1 2 3 hu ha</value> Does that matter for automatic processing of XML data or database storage? I have practically no knowledge of XML conversion.
I think, that this could work fine. You'd need to specify <key> and <data> as required elements inside a <value>, that must occur exactly once, like:
<!ELEMENT value (key, data)>
Empty data should be allowed, imo. This would be a correct DTD, and thus every xml parser should be able to read it. I don't know, if specifying it that way was faster than using attributes, though. Files will be larger, though.
ciao
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