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That answer makes some sense in the world of machine-handled network-distributed documents. It makes almost no sense in the world of human-originated hand-delivered tech pubs. In this world, the problems of options are that the machines are not choosing. Options are often in collision with human habits and preferences. In theory, the DTD circumscribes all of the valid expressions. In practice, it becomes a social network problem of who decides which invalid constructs will be allowed within the boundaries, as in our case, what to spend the 2% acceptable error points on. The consumer doesn't decide. This is quite real and a reason for the high costs of XML-delivered documentation. len From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:costello@m...] At this point I will do my best at characterizing what I think Walter Perry would say: The consumer of an XML instance document that has an omitted element or attribute is free to give whatever meaning he or she desires to that omission. [Walter, if I have not accurately characterized your ideas please correct me.] /Roger
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