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 Because you are not always in the position of being able to influence what is allowed in the Schema? If you are in an organization where the schemas are made by one department (in one country), the data is authored by another department (in another country), the testing is done by another group (in another country), the stylesheets are made by another department (also not in your country) and the content is packaged into applications by yet another department, in another country, outsourced to some other country, then then the schema business can be a highly controlled affair, in order to reduce communication or re-tooling costs. Then imagine this was coupled to a company that used a data mapping tool where you have to state every possible absolute XPath that can be found in any document and program for that explicitly. That is the behaviour of at least one commonly used commercial tool, from the data warehouse industry. If you add an extra element, you potentially may have to deal with an explosion: so you cannot do it willy nilly. Or imagine a production system which is written so that unknown elements cause documents to be dropped as exceptions. An earlier part of the chain cannot just add an element or attribute unless they can also remove it. I think these kinds of scenarios are often more the case for people working in large organizations, than being able to arbitrarily bend the schemas: the technical difficulty in understanding schemas only makes it worse. One way out of this would be to provide a standard namespace that had a semantic of "can appear anywhere, can contain anything you like, isnt validated", which is not really possible without changing existing schemas (and schema languages). So I don't think elements provide what PIs do: if elements were satisfactory, people would use elements. However, if MicroXML is not geared towards allowing people to hack functional systems in the confines of large enterprises, none of that matters. The response is not "You can use elements and attributes" but "Use something else". Cheers Rick On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:31 PM, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Len Bullard <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com> wrote: >> >> If PIs are not available, this will likely eliminate MicroXML as a >> markup language for composition intensive applications where >> content-tagged structures such as Notes, Cautions and Warnings must by >> specification be bound to the same page. > > Why can't you use elements or attributes for this? 
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