Re: [xml-dev] Interesting pair of comments (was Re: [xml-dev] SchemaExperience Workshop minutes online)

• To: Pete Cordell <petexmldev@...>
• Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Interesting pair of comments (was Re: [xml-dev] SchemaExperience Workshop minutes online)
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:22:31 -0400
• Cc: Paul Downey <paul.downey@...>, xml-dev@...
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Pete Cordell wrote:

> Mixed is a core feature that XML supports, but does that mean you have 
> to make use of it as a core feature for an application specific XML 
> syntax specification language (e.g. a data oriented schema profile)?

Yes. Failure to fully support the XML infoset would be a disaster for 
any schema language. No particular schema has to use it, but it has to 
be recognized and supported, if for no other reason than to identify it 
as invalid when documents do contain mixed content.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@...
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