- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:34:19 +0900 (JST)
- To: "Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-i18n-its@w3.org
> Felix Sasaki wrote: >> The current version of the ODD schema generates a mandatory >> "its:version" attribute. That is correct for its usage at the rules >> element, but not at a potential root element: imagine that a schema has >> elements that can be root elements, but also other elements. In that >> case "its:version" must not be mandatory. >> >> Changing >> <attDef ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" ident="version" usage="req"> >> to >> <attDef ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" ident="version" usage="opt"> >> would break <its:rules> . >> >> What do you think? >> > the schema is for use with ITS elements, and only mentions the > the version attribute as it applies to <rules>. It does not > per se provide schema rules which are to be dumped into > a host schema. So I don't see it as an issue. > > Can you give a use case? Docbook, which allows you to have e.g. a chapter as a root element, but also as part of a <book> root element. My (small, but existing) collection of docbook files have a masterfile with <book> as the root, which includes via entities chapter. I'd like to validate both (and possibly independent of each other). If others don't see this as an issue, I won't insist. Felix > > -- > Sebastian Rahtz > > Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services > 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 > > OSS Watch: JISC Open Source Advisory Service > http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk > >
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