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Which is the better approach, to nest, or have multiple files with “IDs” that “link” the different files?
Here are my examples that I am working with:
Multiple files:
Nested:
First time at XML, so it could be horribly wrong! (and I am planning to make XSD’s as soon as I have some idea of where the structure is going).
Both approaches have their place; it really depends on how the data will be used. Using a single file is great if you’re primarily going to process the data with XSLT. If, on the other hand, you’re just using XML as a persistence mechanism for an object tree, the separate files let you rewrite just the parts of interest without affecting the whole file.