RE: [xml-dev] which xml schema tools do it right concerning including attributes xml:lang and xml:space

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com [SMTP:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com]
> Sent:	Friday, April 19, 2002 1:23 PM
> To:	Dare Obasanjo
> Cc:	Henry S. Thompson; Stanley Guan; xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject:	RE: [xml-dev] which xml schema tools do it right concerning
> including  attributes xml:lang and xml:space
> 
> I've only followed some of this thread.  That said:  isn't it reasonable 
> that I might want to define xml:lang, for purposes of my schema, as being 
> an enumeration of say  {en,fr}?   Why prevent that? 
> 
I think that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do...and no, it should not
be forbidden.

> I think it would be a good thing if many parsers took switches to force 
> loading of particular schemas, to force schemaLocation to be honored on 
> import, etc.  Of course, there can be no conflict among (global) 
> definitions of a given element or attribute.
> 
Ditto. The fact that the REC says that schemaLocation is only a hint
shouldn't imply to implementors that they can always ignore it...they should
give uses the option of whether to ignore or honor it.

pvb