[Fwd: Re: Parseable output: --xml option for more commands]

[Forwarding, as I assume this was meant for the list. - Julian Foad]

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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:19:43 +0100
From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
To: julianfoad@btopenworld.com

Julian Foad wrote:
> ...
> Thanks for the clarification and advice. So, we should represent a file
> path either in a CDATA-type attribute value or as character data between
> start and end tags, and there is little technical reason to prefer one
> over the other.

Right. It's really a matter of taste.

One rule of thumb: don't use an attribute if there's a slim chance that
you need to extend or annotate it later on.

Best regards, Julian

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