Re: [xml-dev] RELAX NG Marketing (was RE: [xml-dev] Do Names Matter?)

[Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@rpbourret.com>]

James Clark wrote:

> What is the compelling use case for being able to specify an empty element
> in the instance and have the validator insert a value specified in the
> schema?

I have a very bad feeling that the use case is a desire to blur the
differences between attributes and singleton child elements. While
parallelism is not prima facie a bad thing, it shouldn't be applied
blindly, as it seems to have been in this case.

-- Ron