Question

I want to create an xml document that has multiple instance of a type, not sure what’s the proper way to do this:

<farm>
  <horses>
    <horse name="jo"></horse>
    <horse name="bill"></horse>
  </horses>
</farm>

or should I skip the tag and just do this:

<farm>
  <horse name="jo"></horse>
  <horse name="bill"></horse>
</farm>

which way is correct?

Thanks

Answer 1

It’s xml, you’re free to choose whatever you like best 🙂

Seriously – both are ok; but think about who you want to please.

As a programmer that would need to consume XML, I would like the first form better.
As an editor that would need to manually create XML I would like the second form better.

I guess i would probably settle for the first form.