Question

I’m doing a personal organizer for learning purposes, and i’ve never worked with XML so i’m not sure if my solution is the best. Here’s the basic structure for the XML file i came with:

<calendar>     <year value='2008'>         <month value='october'>             <day value='16'>                 <activity name='mike's birthday' time='21:00' address='mike's apartment' urgency='10'>                      activity description.                 </activity>             </day>         </month>     </year> </calendar> 

The urgency attribute should be on a scale of 1 to 10.
I did a quick search on google and couldn’t find a good example. Maybe that’s not the best solution, and i’d like to know if its adequate. I’m doing the application in PHP if that has any relevance.

Answer 1

Your way is quite adequate to me. However, I prefer child tags to attributes, so my way would be more like:

<activity>   <name>Mike's Birthday</name>   <time>2100</time>   <address>Mike's Place</address>   <urgency>10</urgency>   <description>activity description</description> </activity> 

But like I said, your way is just fine.

Quick question, though – why not a database?