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Re: XML Schema: What does it *really* mean to declare an eleme

• From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:51:04 -0500

I'm confused about the context of your question, Roger.

Formatting properties such as font posture, font size and font family 
are all aspects of presentation, not aspects of representation.

When you talk about italicizing and formatting element names, these 
aren't properties of XML files but of some kind of presentation of 
the XML file syntax, so why even ask any question regarding equivalencies?

If you've applied these properties to your XML syntax while in, say, 
a word processing tool, the end result isn't XML but is simply the 
tool's internal file format in which these properties exist.  If you 
save the raw text from the tool as a raw XML file, then that file 
won't have the presentation properties you cite.

So ... in what contexts are you talking about applying these 
formatting properties to raw syntax?

. . . . . . . . Ken

At 2013-01-01 19:43 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>I have an XML Schema in which I declared this element:
>
>         <xs:element name="W" type="xs:string" />
>
>What does that element declaration really mean?
>
>Does it mean that in an instance document I may only have this:
>
>     <W>...</W>
>
>Suppose I italicize the element name:
>
>     <W>...</W>
>
>Suppose I italicize the element name and make it BIG:
>
>     <W>...</W>
>
>Suppose I make the start tag BIG but the end tag small:
>
>     <W>...</W>
>
>Suppose I display the element name in Magneto font:
>
>     <W>...</W>
>
>How about Old English font:
>
>     <W>...</W>
>
>They are all equivalent:
>
>     <W>...</W>
>     <W>...</W>
>     <W>...</W>
>     <W>...</W>
>     <W>...</W>
>     <W>...</W>
>
>Neat!
>
>/Roger
>


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  • XML Schema: What does it *really* mean to declare an element?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>