- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Feb 2001 14:07:09 +0000
- To: "Waterfeld, Dr., Walter" <Walter.Waterfeld@softwareag.com>
- Cc: "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Waterfeld, Dr., Walter" <Walter.Waterfeld@softwareag.com> writes:
> opposite to DTD XML schema allows default for elements. The default for an
> element is specified in the
> meta schema as a string attribute.
> For me a strings seems to be no good representation for an arbitrary
> element.
> I expected something like ANY to specify complete defaults for elements.
XML Schema only allows defaults for elements with simple types, so
strings cover all the allowed possibilities.
ht
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