xml schemas and xml:* attributes

dear xml schema working group.

in an xml-centric processing environment, xml:* attributes can appear  
in various locations in xml documents, sometimes because of authors  
or authoring tools (xml:lang), sometimes because of xml technologies  
(xinclude). it would be good if a schema could more easily  
accommodate these attributes than be having to add them everywhere in  
the schema.

whether this is something that will only address xml:* attributes, or  
attributes in general (from any namespace) is something that i would  
like to leave open for discussion, but it certainly would be useful  
to have an easy way to plug together w3c xml technologies without  
having to resort to rather cumbersome and brittle ways of specifying  
things.

if possible, please cc me on replies, i am not on the mailing list.

thanks for your consideration and kind regards,

erik wilde   tel:+1-510-6432253 - fax:+1-510-6425814
        dret@berkeley.edu  -  http://dret.net/netdret
        UC Berkeley - School of Information (iSchool)

Received on Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:52:55 UTC