I know you can put it into the format as shown, but...

If you use the xml template generator in word 2003 you get real problems. Try out this link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/odc_wdxmlresumetemp.asp

The main point here is that you need to create an xslt template to map the document to generate xml. Because it sees the tag <author> once only in the xslt template, it will error.

if you put the author tag in twice then it works. The problem is you do not know how many author tags you require.

It adds a little more weight to my argument that xml is not really a conventional standard at all. The applications to retrieve xml have to be written specifically for each template. I thought the idea of a standard was someting like a text file that you can dts in, open in excel etc.