[Bug 6158] Allow attributes to precede elements

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6158


David Ezell <David_E3@VERIFONE.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from David Ezell <David_E3@VERIFONE.com>  2009-01-05 16:52:40 ---
On 2009-01-05 DE responded to Axel Dahmen.  The actual email is at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-wg/2009Jan/0003.html.

The text follows:

Dear Mr. Dahmen:

Thanks very much for your careful reading of our specification, and for your
suggestion about 

changing the way we handle the defining and declaring of attributes within
complex type definitions.

On October 17, 2009, the WG discussed the issue.  The relevant points from the
discussion were:

- some WG members are very sympathetic with improving the syntax to make it
more intuitive, or at least less counter intuitive.

- relaxing the spec to allow attributes to appear at the beginning of complex
types would break backward compatibility.

- changing the spec to allow attributes to appear anywhere in the complex type
definition is controversial with some WG members, since "unordered" does not
mean "no order" - it often means the order may vary, but the actual document
order is significant in each document instance.  For this case, document order
would not be significant.

- changing the complexType declaration is may be overtaken by a more compact
syntax.

Putting these points into a meaninful sentence:  while some WG members are
sympathetic, the actual implementation as described would be controversial, and
in any case may be overtaken with the "compact syntax" discussions that the WG
plans to have after the publication of XML Schema 1.1.

So the WG would like to mark this issue as LATER.  Please let us know if you
accept our resolution.

Thanks again for your comments.

Best regards,
David Ezell, chair
XML Schema WG
On behalf of the XML Schema WG


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