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  • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • To: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>, xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:16:48 -0500

At 10:09 AM 3/7/2001 -0800, Ronald Bourret wrote:
>But what if I want things like attribute defaults or data types but
>don't care about validation? Can I get these?

Heh.  You could create XSLT style sheets which added xsi:type attributes or 
attribute values all over the place, but that's not likely to be processed 
by most parsers in current processing models.

>It would be nice if the PSVI was factored into multiple categories (e.g.
>defaults, type information, validation information) and parsers could
>implement these separately, with applications choosing what they needed.

I'd love to see that, but I'm not holding my breath!  A reasonably clear 
well-formed XML representation of the PSVI might help with some of it, though.


Simon St.Laurent
Associate Editor
O'Reilly and Associates

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