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

Paul Downey wrote:

> Agreed, but so are processing instructions and DTDs, and yet some  domains
> choose to exclude them, e.g.:
> 
> http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/BasicProfile-1.1-2004-08 
> -24.html#Disallowed_Constructs
> 

And I'm on record as saying that's a major mistake. But again you're 
confusing different issues. restricting the syntactic constructs allowed 
in a particular application has nothing to do with what constraints a 
schema language can express on the structures of documents.

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