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Marcus Carr wrote - > > "Thomas B. Passin" wrote: > > > It seems as if there should be an indication, similar to "standalone", that > > would indicate whether a particular document is incomplete because a DTD or > > schema is supplying needed values. > > How do you maintain the currency of the declarations? What do you do if the schema > changes? Reprocess the instances either to include the modified attribute value or > by changing the declaration? > These are good questions but they apply even if the schema is included and processed. If I change a schema so as to change a defaulted attribute value, what should you do about those documents I've already processed? The question is no different. >I don't think it's appropriate to let the instance dictate terms to the system. What, you mean it's better to leave information out of a document and require a processor to refer to another document to recover it? >For one thing, it may mean that an instance could be required to be processed >against a schema, even though in the context of the current process, type did not >matter and no schema had been provided. I thought I was favoring exactly this possibility. If you didn't think so, then I wasn't clear. Sorry. Cheers, Tom P
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