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    copied!<p>It's largely a matter of preference. I use Elements for grouping and attributes for data where possible as I see this as more compact than the alternative.</p> <p>For example I prefer.....</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;data&gt; &lt;people&gt; &lt;person name="Rory" surname="Becker" age="30" /&gt; &lt;person name="Travis" surname="Illig" age="32" /&gt; &lt;person name="Scott" surname="Hanselman" age="34" /&gt; &lt;/people&gt; &lt;/data&gt; </code></pre> <p>...Instead of....</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;data&gt; &lt;people&gt; &lt;person&gt; &lt;name&gt;Rory&lt;/name&gt; &lt;surname&gt;Becker&lt;/surname&gt; &lt;age&gt;30&lt;/age&gt; &lt;/person&gt; &lt;person&gt; &lt;name&gt;Travis&lt;/name&gt; &lt;surname&gt;Illig&lt;/surname&gt; &lt;age&gt;32&lt;/age&gt; &lt;/person&gt; &lt;person&gt; &lt;name&gt;Scott&lt;/name&gt; &lt;surname&gt;Hanselman&lt;/surname&gt; &lt;age&gt;34&lt;/age&gt; &lt;/person&gt; &lt;/people&gt; &lt;/data&gt; </code></pre> <p>However if I have data which does not represent easily inside of say 20-30 characters or contains many quotes or other characters that need escaping then I'd say it's time to break out the elements... possibly with CData blocks.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;data&gt; &lt;people&gt; &lt;person name="Rory" surname="Becker" age="30" &gt; &lt;comment&gt;A programmer whose interested in all sorts of misc stuff. His Blog can be found at http://rorybecker.blogspot.com and he's on twitter as @RoryBecker&lt;/comment&gt; &lt;/person&gt; &lt;person name="Travis" surname="Illig" age="32" &gt; &lt;comment&gt;A cool guy for who has helped me out with all sorts of SVn information&lt;/comment&gt; &lt;/person&gt; &lt;person name="Scott" surname="Hanselman" age="34" &gt; &lt;comment&gt;Scott works for MS and has a great podcast available at http://www.hanselminutes.com &lt;/comment&gt; &lt;/person&gt; &lt;/people&gt; &lt;/data&gt; </code></pre>
 

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