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• Subject: Re: RELAX NG Marketing (was RE: Do Names Matter?)
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:47:52 -0800
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James Clark wrote:

> What is the compelling use case for being able to specify an empty element
> in the instance and have the validator insert a value specified in the
> schema?

I have a very bad feeling that the use case is a desire to blur the
differences between attributes and singleton child elements. While
parallelism is not prima facie a bad thing, it shouldn't be applied
blindly, as it seems to have been in this case.

-- Ron

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