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Ron Bourret wrote: > > Major Question: Do we want Attribute declarations allowed outside of element > > declarations? If yes, we need to do that here. This will be fairly minor > > surgery; the AttDef element will also need a new attribute for its parent > > element. The XML 1.0 spec doesn't have any such production - it just uses > > Name. > > I vote yes. There are two reasons, both for user convenience. First, it allows > multiple attribute declarations for the same element; in this case, the Element > attribute of the AttList element points to the relevant ElementDecl. Second, it > is a convenient shorthand for an attribute applying to all elements; in this > case, the Element attribute of the AttList element is omitted. I agree. > I think it would be useful to explain further why an XSchema might be nested > under another XSchema. In my mind, the major reason is reusability -- this > structure means that the contents of two XSchemas can simply be placed inside > the contents of a third XSchema. Nested XSchemas also allow you to precisely specify the scope of Doc elements. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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