- From: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:16:57 -0600
- To: petsa@us.ibm.com, "DuCharme, Robert" <Robert.DuCharme@moodys.com>
- Cc: "'www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org'" <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
At 10:37 00/06/23 -0400, petsa@us.ibm.com wrote: >In section 3.3.4, where NMTOKEN is defined, the Datatypes spec says >"For compatibility (see Terminolgy (1.4)) NMTOKEN should be used only >in attributes." If you go to 1.4, it defines "compatibility" as >compatibilty >with the XML 1.0 spec. > >This means that you are free to use NMTOKEN as an element value but >your instance documents will not conform to the XML 1.0 spec. Actually, I think they'll conform just fine. But the parser won't be required to do anything special with them (no whitespace normalization) and it won't be something a DTD can capture. I am mildly astonished to discover that we seem to have invented a schema language which is better capable of describing HyTime documents than DTDs. :) Michael
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