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Francis Norton wrote: > "Local types may be used to specify elements with the same name but > different types in different content models. Use of this feature makes > it simpler to write complex schemas which will be processed by > schema-specific processors. However it may also make it harder to > process the data with general purpose processors such as presentation or > editing tools. > > By default the setting for xsd:elementFormDefault is "unqualified", > which means that local elements are distiguished from global elements by > the fact that they are not in the schema-specific namespace (if any). > Again this involves a trade-off - it may make it simpler to write a > schema-specific processor for these documents, but it may well cause > problems if elements from the schema are likely to be mixed in to > documents with elements from other schemas and then processed by > non-schema-specific utilities, especially if these utilities use XSLT or > XPath." Ship it. -- Ron
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