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Thanks. actually that makes lot of sense... especially your schema describes an inventory of lot of stuff, even quite unrelated..?? but actually do you have a concrete example when this might actually happen... that will be good... thanks and regards - murali. On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Marcus Carr wrote: > > Murali Mani wrote: > > > Anyways, though I have always believed that the schema should specify the > > possible root types, people have always said against this, I have always > > waited for one good reason for not specifying the root of the document in > > the schema, but unfortunately, I do not think I have seen any... I will > > keep waiting for some good reason ... > > There are two very distinct phases to creating an XML dataset - one > involves the analysis and specification of the eventual model (via the > schema or DTD) and the other is the creation of the data to populate > the model. These tasks are often carried out by very different people > - in many cases, they won't even belong to the same organisation. Why > would you presume that the analysts so completely understands the > tools and people who will be creating the data, that they are capable > of dictating what possible root elements will be adequate for the > task? Documents are often compilations of XML fragments created in > isolation - if data creators couldn't specify the root arbitrarily, > they would have to either be able to modify the schema or create (and > maintain) compliant subset schemas. Neither of these are appropriate > in a production environment. > > > -- > Regards, > > Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... > ___________________________________________________________________ > Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au > ___________________________________________________________________ > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." > - Einstein > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... >
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