Hassan Schroeder wrote:
Also, consider the refactoring pain if -- when! -- you might need to increase the granularity of your data --is: <credit>Mark Twain</credit> suddenly needs to be: <credit> <author> <firstname>Mark</firstname> <lastname>Twain</lastname> </author> <editor> <firstname>...</firstname> ... etc. Much easier to work with elements in that case :-)
Absolutely! Attributes really only work for "atomic" data that you'll never want to split up any further.
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