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 "David E. Cleary" wrote: > Let's take this argument to an extreme. There are members of the XML > community who loudly argue that using attributes is a bad practice. XML > Schema could have taken this point of view and not created attribute > declarations. ... XML Schema had to be able to model as much > of well formed XML as possible. I finally understand your point here. It's interesting, because I had always thought of XML Schemas as a way to build document models. Modeling well-formed XML was obviously a requirement that had to be fulfilled, but more of one that sat in the background. The reason for this was that some well-formed documents just aren't worth modeling, even if it should be possible. XSLT style sheets are a good example of this, since you generally would need one DTD per stylesheet. My point was not that XML Schemas shouldn't be able to model any well-formed XML -- it should, and doing something like omitting attribute definitions would break this. My point was that by including a convenience feature -- which I believe local element types and elementFormDefault are -- you effectively legitimize the practice that the feature supports. -- Ron P.S. For extra credit, I have three questions: 1) Is there any well-formed XML that a DTD can't model? I can't think of any (namespace issues aside). 2) Is there any well-formed XML that XML Schemas can't model? Again, I can't think of any. 3) Are local element types and the elementFormDefault attribute necessary to model well-formed XML? Again, I'm pretty sure that the answer is no. 
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