- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:57:35 +0000
- To: "Orion Adrian" <oadrian@hotmail.com>
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
"Orion Adrian" <oadrian@hotmail.com> writes:
<snip/>
> Either the W3C needs to abandon non-sequenced elements (as used in
> the HTML head element) or it needs to introduce an unordered group
> structure.
<PersonalOpinion tonguePosition="only-slightly-in-cheek">
I view the current design as a responsible approach to your first
option: provide very limited support for the simplest uses of
non-sequenced elements, but discourage the concept in general. I'm a
great believer in the markup principle which says "If order isn't
significant, then pick an order and require it."
</PersonalOpinion>
<SupportingObservation>
I haven't seen _any_ examples of document types for which people want
non-sequenced elements where order matters (that is, where <a/> <b/>
means something different from <b/> <a/>).
</SupportingObservation>
ht
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