RE: Tentative Conclusion on XML Design Question

["Larry Masinter" <LMM@xxxxxxx>]

I prefer using XML namespace qualified names for extensible enumerated
sets of values, much more than using either attributes with string values
or content.

So I much prefer <secret> to <Data Name="SECRET"> because (presumably)
"secret" is one of an enumerated set.

One "test" is that if you take a fragment of the resulting XML and
translate it (from English, presumably) to another language, words
in attributes and content would translate, but namespace-qualified
names would not. (Of course, base64-encoded data in element values
don't count.)

Larry