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Paul Prescod wrote: > Anyhow: when I first started using SGML, it really bothered me that > attribute constraint declarations were not buried in element type > declarations. But now I think that it is better to strictly separate them. > It should be possible to attach attributes to any list of elements > (including ALL). I think that SGML and XML had it right, and we should go > back to that way of doing it. I assume this is an error for "SGML had it right". In XML, there is no reason to assume that the "id ID #IMPLIED" attribute in one element has anything to do with the "id ID #IMPLIED" attribute in another. There is no way of declaring in XML DTDs that two elements have the *very same* attribute, only that they have attributes that agree in name and type. XML DTDs do not reify attributes. > If we want to allow nesting of attribute constraint declarations in > element constraint declarations, it should be a short-hand for the > expanded version. I disagree. I am willing to accept a shorthand, either by way of general entities in XSchemas or otherwise, for copying attribute declarations from one element to another by way of shorthand, but not for reifying attributes independently of the elements they are attached to. Perhaps the practical result would be the same, but the theoretical implications are very different. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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