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At 3:40 PM -0800 1/22/02, Michael Brennan wrote: >> Perhaps an attribute: >> >> <root rddl:doctype="....a RDDL directory of 'document types' ..."> > >I don't particularly like this. For one, the rddl:doctype attribute is >essentially a processing directive. I think a PI would be more >appropriate. (XML Schema set a bad precedent in this regard, IMHO.) I'm >also not convinced that a specialized attribute or PI and specialized >purpose are needed. > An attribute would only make sense if this could be applied to multiple elements in the document and to non-root elements. But if we're talking about *document* types as opposed to *element* types, then the scope should be document wide, and a processing instruction is appropriate. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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