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Dan Vint <dvint@mindspring.com> writes:
> At 08:46 AM 4/24/2003 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> >2) The W3C XML Schema WG was convinced that the needs of document
> >authors to state their claims of document type and the needs of
> >applications to protect themselves could not _both_ be satisfied by
> >any form of _required_ connection between documents and schemas, so we
> >made _all_ such connections hints.
>
> So rather than looking at something like XML/SGL catalogs as a
> mechanism to appease both or make it manageable
How does moving the information out of the document make it any less
of a contradiction to _require_ that an author's intentions are
respected, while at the same time _allowing_ an application to use the
schema it must?
I think you're over-reacting to the word 'hint' and not looking
carefully enough at what the REC says about xsi:schemaLocation -- see
my immediately preceding message.
ht
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