Spry XML Q

I have a data grid which lists courses description etc. It
reads in the XML fine. What I was wondering is I have this one
column that shows the date or dates (multiple) for each class.
Would I just list these multiple dates like this:
<date>8/8/09 10/23/09 11/21/09</date> It looks
ok in the grid but is that correct? Maybe crazy Q, dunno.
Also how does Spry read or display XML attributes? DOes
anyone one have or know of any good Spry examples?
ANy help is appreciated.

It depends on what you want to do with the dates. If you are
only ever going to display them *as is* into the HTML then that is
fine. If you want/need to format them so that they are in a list,
or whatever, then I would look into formatting it either like this:
<date>8/8/09</date>
<date>10/23/09</date>
<date>11/21/09</date>
or wrapped within a dates tag:
<dates>
<date>8/8/09</date>
<date>10/23/09</date>
<date>11/21/09</date>
</dates>
and then look into the use of nested data sets:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/data_region/NestedXMLDataSample.html#Using NestedDataSets
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</location>
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<div spry:region="ds1">
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