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