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• To: Paul Downey <paul.downey@w...>
• Subject: Re: Interesting pair of comments (was Re: SchemaExperience Workshop minutes online)
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:49:18 -0400
• Cc: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>, "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
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Paul Downey wrote:

> Which I think, proves my point. Whilst I agree that mixed content is
> core - from my perspective it's what XML is all about, but for many
> people serialising their data, it's a nuisance and definitely not as
> core as xsi:nill.

The difference is that mixed content is  core part of XML itself. 
xsi:nil is only relevant in the context of one particular schema language.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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