Semantic implications of multiple tags

Question

When using

lists to associate keys to values, is there a semantic difference between these 2 samples? Which one provides better semantics? What do multiple

Answer 1

The document that you link to contains the following example:

In the following example, one entry ("Authors") is linked to two values ("John" and "Luke").

 
 Authors
 
 John
 
 Luke
 
 Editor
 
 Frank

In other words, the two

elements following a single

element are both associated to that same

element.

There doesn't appear to be much of a difference in terms of semantics, then, between having multiple successive

elements, and having a single

that in turn contains a

. If it's important to distinguish "a list" (a
in a single
) from "a group of values" (multiple
s in sequence), then I would decide based on that. If that's not important, then given a choice I would pick multiple
s in sequence, because it is simpler.