Why can't we include foreign attributes in xs:appinfo and xs:documentation ? from Eric van der Vlist on 2002-02-04 (www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org from January to March 2002)

From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:00:53 +0100
To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <3C5E4DC5.1040800@dyomedea.com>

Title says if all (almost).

Things such as:

<xs:element name="author" type="author">
  <xs:annotation>
   <xs:appinfo xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
     xlink:arcrole="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     xlink:role="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     xlink:title="Author template" xlink:href="library.xslt#author">
    <div class="resource">
     <h4>XSLT Transformation</h4>
     <p>This <a href="library.xslt#author">template</a> displays the 
description of an author.</p>
    </div>
   </xs:appinfo>
  </xs:annotation>
</xs:element>

could be nifty and seem harmless but they are forbidden by the schema 
for schema!

Why?

Thanks

Eric
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