On Nov 5, 2004, at 8:58 AM, Jim Menard wrote: > What determines whether the value should be an attribute or a > sub-element? It's not level because, for example, sex and name are at > the same level but name's value is an attribute where sex's is a text > sub-element. > > Is the rule that the value should be an attribute only if the element > has children? That's how I took it, but maybe we can drag Jamis out to clarify this for us... James Edward Gray II