Data-centric Documents

Data can be contained in elements or attributes.

Elements:

<quote>
  <company>YHOO</company>
  <date>2008-10-20</date>
  <close>12.86</close>
  <volume>49985</volume>
</quote>

Attributes:

<quote company="YHOO" date="2008-10-20" close="12.86" volume="49985"/>

"Mixed":

<quote>
  <company value="YHOO"/>
  <date value="2008-10-20"/>
  <close value="12.86"/>
  <volume value="49985"/>
</quote>

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