Is this good XML?

Question

I work for a client who used this XML structure for the content of his site:

<section title="title1" layoutType="VideoViewer" xmlPath="xml/ita/title1.xml" pageTitle="extended title" previewImg=""/>

<section title="another title" layoutType="TimeLine" xmlPath="xml/ita/timeline.xml" textFile="" pageTitle="extended title for timeline"></section>

I am new to XML, but it doesn’t look very good. Besides a different way to close tags (autocomplete with />or explicitly close with </section>), I would think that XML should be more like

<section> 
  <title>title1</title> 
  <layoutType>"VideoViewer" </layoutType>
  <xmlPath>xml/ita/title1.xml </xmlPath> 
  <pageTitle>extended title</pageTitle> 
  <previewImg/>
</section>

<section>
 ...etc etc..
</section>

What do you think?

If they are both ok, is there a "best practice"?

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