RE: draft XML query results format spec

> Ultimately it's just that age-old question: what's better, attributes or
> elements? The angels-on-pinheads committee is still out on that
> one I think.

Oops, that's a bit of a mangled metaphor I think. The usual comparison is
elements vs. attribute *names* (in which search efficiency will be very
similar). The case we're talking about here is similar but even more
indirect, since we're comparing elements to attribute *values*.
Howard

Received on Tuesday, 28 September 2004 22:48:54 UTC