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• Subject: Re: QNames in attribute values
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 01:31:05 -0800
• References: <NEBBLOGPODFIFNJHLHBGAEBHEOAA.elenz@x...> <3C56670D.1D898AB6@r...>

Ronald Bourret wrote:
> 
> Evan Lenz wrote:
> > Is it too late to fix this? W3C specs would have to change. My question is:
> > who else uses QNames in attribute values? Is there no turning back?
> 
> Anybody who wants to represent graphs at the schema level.

I thought again and realized it's more general than that. Qnames in
attribute values are useful to anyone who wants to point to element
types (as opposed to elements). This represents a good-sized class of
metadata-driven applications.

-- Ron

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