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You're fine. There is no confusion at all with having the same element name
in different places within a piece of XML.

obviously if you were using it to represent different things it would be a
bad idea, but as you're representing a hierarchy of similar objects, this is
exactly what I would do.

"PaulC" <> wrote in message
news:Xns93DB86A6B1395h6ygi756f4EAF@195.8.68.218...
> Just wondering if the below is legal XML, as I want to use it for the
> configuration file of one of my applications.
>
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> <menu caption = "File">
> <menu caption = "Open">
> <menu item = "Process" />
> <menu item = "File" />
> </menu>
> <menu item = "Save" />
> <menu item = "Exit" />
> </menu>
>
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> The idea of the above is create a menu entitled "File" where the "Open"
> item has subitems. The question is, can elements be nested in this way, or
> does each element have to have a different name than the one it's inside ?

Thanks.

"Andy Fish" <> wrote in
news:vL40b.322$:

> You're fine. There is no confusion at all with having the same element
> name in different places within a piece of XML.
>
> obviously if you were using it to represent different things it would
> be a bad idea, but as you're representing a hierarchy of similar
> objects, this is exactly what I would do.