Re: 3.2: why are {min occurs}/{max occurs} optional in Attribute Decl aration? from Henry S. Thompson on 2000-04-28 (www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org from April to June 2000)

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Apr 2000 08:54:07 +0100
To: James Tauber <JTauber@bowstreet.com>
Cc: "'www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org'" <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <f5b3do6d5k0.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

Because they don't make sense on top-level declarations.  It's
entirely parallel to element declarations, just less obvious because
we make Particle explicit between content model and element decl., but leave 
what my parser calls AttributeUse implicit between type def and attr
decl.

ht
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