[Fwd: Re: Mixed content]

[Ed Shaya]

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 In <workgroup>IVO_DM</workgroup> news today, a debate

raged over the use of mixed format in XML.  <Definition>Mixed 
Format,<meaning>when an element type can hold both strings and child 
elements</meaning></Definition>, is a part of the original XML 1.0 
specification and is <emphasis>needed</emphasis> in most any element 
holding a long description of <emphasis>anything</emphasis> and, since 
the inception of  XML Schema (with the demotion of General Entities), 
any string requiring special characters, as in ampersand, <amp/>, or 
<eacute/> (eg. <Eacute/>cole).   <IVOmember>Alasdair Allen</IVOmember> 
<url> http://www.babilim.co.uk/blog/ </url> and  <NVOmember>Mathew 
Graham</NVOmember>  at <institution>Caltech</institution> , 
<IVOmember>Guy Rixen </IVOworker>, and <NVOmember>Bob Seaman</NVOmember>
came to agreement, perhaps for the first time about anything, that mixed 
content might be allowed in the <A href="http://www.ivoa.net/">IVO</A>.  
However many others, too numerous to name, felt strongly that mixed 
content is a definite no-no.  As for me, I would never be caught creating 
mixed content as that would be way too confusing to be understood by any 
parser much less a mere human.
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