begginer xml simple confusion on the images path ( any one above begginner will be able to help cheers )

[hansolo]

in the xml file to load the image. is this reffering below to a folder named images with a pic of a jpg named image.<image source="images/image.jpg"then what is the thumbnail reffering to would that not be duplicate of the image <images><image source="images/image.jpg" thumb="thumbnails"/image1.jpg">description= description of image</image></images>thumb="thumbnails"/image1.jpg"

[jeffman]

Assuming you match the quotation marks correctly:thumb="thumbnails/image1.jpg"refers to a directory called "thumbnails" that contains a file called "image1.jpg". So it really is a different file.Should the filenames be "image.jpg" and "image1.jpg", or is that just an error?

[jeffman]

If you are creating the XML document yourself, it would be better practice for the source, thumb, and description data to be elements, not attributes, like this:

<images>   <image>	  <source>images/image.jpg</source>	  <thumb>thumbnails/image1.jpg</thumb>	  <description>blah</description>   </image></images>

[boen_robot]

If you are creating the XML document yourself, it would be better practice for the source, thumb, and description data to be elements, not attributes, like this:

I'd say it depends on the scenario really. I mean just look at the majority of standard specs - it's always an attribute, because all paths and/or URIs are a single string, and that's unlikely to ever change. Well, the allowed characters change, but not the fact that we're still talking about a single plain string.Excluding the "description=" part (which is pure nonsence here), I think:

<image source="images/image.jpg" thumb="thumbnails/image1.jpg">description of image</image>

is actually a nice design.But it's a matter of opinion, so yeah... an element or an attribute... doesn't exactly matter.