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RE: Namespaces, W3C XML Schema (was Re: ANN: SAX FiltersforNamespaceProc

• From: "David E. Cleary" <davec@p...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:58:09 -0400

> Perhaps the fact that the "elementFormDefault" attribute on the schema
> element defaults to "unqualified" if not explicitly specified
> contributes to
> this. I think one would reasonably expect the defaults to point
> users toward
> best practices, not bad practices.

This default was probably the most contensious debate in the WG, and I would
prefer to see it changed. Unfortunatly, it is too late to do that. XML Spy
automatically sets this to qualified when you create a new schema with it's
tool. That is one way to get around this.

Dave

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