xml-dev - Re: Requirement for attributes with schema scope

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

"Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com> writes:

> [Comments on qualified attributes in instances, and a proposal for
>  top-level attribute declarations which can be 'ref'ed]

Something along these lines has been considered, and it's not out of
the question that it may happen.

For the time being, the only schema-valid way to introduce an
attribute from other than the namespace partition scoped to the
containing element is by way of an attribute GROUP from another
namespace, e.g.

  <type>
   . . .
   <attributeGroup ref='foo:baz'/>
  </type>

See the schema for schemas [1] for an example of how this is done, wrt
xml:lang.

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#normative-schemaSchema
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