- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:45:29 -0500
- To: Liam Quin <liam@holoweb.net>
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org, www-xml-schema-comments-request@w3.org
Liam Quin writes: >> I did, however, just have to find a way to explain >> that the type of an element is not the same as >> its element type. For what it's worth, and I strongly suspect that you have already noticed this, the potential for such confusion is one of the reasons that the XML Schema drafts do not use the term "Element Type". "Element type" is an XML 1.0 term that applies to the definition for an element as established in a DTD. The approximately equivalent construction in an XML Schema is an "Element Declaration", which does indeed associate the element name with a simple or complex "Type" (but not _Element_ type.). We made a point of not reusing the term "element type" except when we refer to the existing XML 1.0 concept. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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