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Re: Structured attributes

• From: Stefan Haustein <haustein@k...>
• To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@c...>
• Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:21:50 +0100

"Henry S. Thompson" wrote:
> (...) 
> The constraints above are equivalent to allowing 'attribute' children
> to the 'attribute' element in XML Schema, along with making the
> attribute name uniqueness constraint cumulative:
> 
>  <element name='person'>
>   <complexType>
>    <attribute name='age' type='integer'/>
>    <attribute name='name'>
>      <attribute name='first'/>
>      <attribute name='middle/>
>      <attribute name='last/>
>    </attribute>
>    <element name='children'>...</children>
>   </complexType>
>  </element>

Henry, I am really disappointed how simple
you designed structured attributes:

You forgot to add a <complexAttributeType> 
element!

Without that, you cannot distinguish 
between two completely different
concepts: the concrete "name" attribute and
the general concept of "name" attributes
consisting of first, middle and last.

I think without that distinction, it 
becomes impossible to program
powerful XML applications like
a general problem solver.

BTW: If attributes of attributes would
have their own complexType, you could 
have both, different named attributes 
replacing "name" in the equivClass of 
"name" and attributes still named 
"name", but of a different 
complexAttributeType. The latter one would 
just need an xsi:type attribute attribute. 

Best regards

Stefan



-- 
Stefan Haustein
University of Dortmund
Computer Science VIII
www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de

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