• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:35:39 -0400

Roger L. Costello wrote:

> In general, what advantage is there in
> forcing a property to be used specifically with a Class?

It allows you to make it an error when someone defines the f-stop
property of a person, or a Web page, or a book, or what have you.
As a result, your f-stop-aware application (if front-ended with a
schema-validity checker) need not cope with such semantically foolish
f-stop properties.

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