20 Dec
2001
20 Dec
'01
14:09
Tim wrote:
<species_comments>The nature of <i>Carcinus maenas</i> is blah blah blah.</species_comments>
This is horrible mixed content stuff, and I am told that this is ipso facto, evil, and we will burn in hell for eternity for considering such a construct...
Except for this kind of usage. Mixed content is perfect for marking up free-form text. Bad for mapping data into data structures (in most cases a database).
If I had XML data containing this structure, I'd simply store the contents as the raw XML.
L.