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Jeff Lowery <jlowery@scenicsoft.com> writes:
> A schema defines the intent of the author. If is so happens to coincide
> with the intent of the consumer, all the merrier.
>
> The author is not prescient of the consumer's intent in almost all cases.
> Therefore, the intent of the author should not be given precedence over the
> consumer's by Recommendations.
Indeed -- that's why W3C XML Schema _loosened_ the binding between
document and schema, compared to XML 1.0 wrt DTDs -- an application
(read 'consumer') is free to mandate its own W3C XML Schema (or none)
in preference to whatever the author provides. What's the problem?
ht
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