Re: ITS version attribute

Felix Sasaki wrote:
> The current version of the ODD schema generates a mandatory
> "its:version" attribute. That is correct for its usage at the rules
> element, but not at a potential root element: imagine that a schema has
> elements that can be root elements, but also other elements. In that
> case "its:version" must not be mandatory.
>
> Changing
> <attDef ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" ident="version" usage="req">
> to
> <attDef ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" ident="version" usage="opt">
> would break <its:rules> .
>
> What do you think?
>   
the schema is for use with ITS elements, and only mentions the
the version attribute as it applies to <rules>. It does not
per se provide schema rules which are to be dumped into
a host schema. So I don't see it as an issue.

Can you give a use case?

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Received on Sunday, 10 September 2006 17:18:28 UTC