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Re: RE : Text or tags choice with XSD

• To: "Bryce K. Nielsen" <bryce@s...>
• Subject: Re: RE : Text or tags choice with XSD
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:03:06 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Bryce K. Nielsen scripsit:

> I think you're missing his point, being that rather than making the end user
> include xsi:type, if he just defines a "time-complex" and a "time-simple"
> element in his schema, the end user now only has to choose which element to
> use (schema stuff can be confusing to end users, so I agree that whenever
> you can exclude them from your instance docs, you should).

Why is using a different element name so much simpler than adding a distinguishing
attribute value?

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