- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 05 Jun 2000 08:41:44 +0100
- To: "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: "Ryan Roleda" <ryanr@ntsp.nec.co.jp>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org> writes:
> At 00/06/02 09:24 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> >Sorry, previous message about misspelling was true, but not the whole
> > story: the further problem was that top-level element declarations do not
> > have min/max occurs -- only element declarations or element declaration
> > references _within content models_ are allowed these attributes.
>
>
> I have found the same for top-level attribute declarations.
>
> Any deeper reason to have it that way? (or pointer to it)
>
> I can easily immagine that i want to define an attribute
> that always has the same occurrence constraint,...
Not much deeper, but a confirmation that it makes sense: at the
abstract level, it's Particles which have min/maxOccurs, not elements
etc.
ht
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