- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 07 Nov 2001 10:11:47 +0000
- To: "Garrett Steed" <gmsteed@seasllc.com>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Garrett Steed" <gmsteed@seasllc.com> writes:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm working on a Schema that need's to know if the value of an XML mark up
> is absent.
> If there are any absent values it must not validate the file. I don't know
> if the W3C has made a decision on the method yet. If anyone knows how to
> deal with this please tell me.
>
> Absent c element: <t></t>
> Empty c element: <t><c/></t>
> Nil c element: <t><c xsi:nil="true"/></t>
Please clarify which of the above you which to allow and which to
disallow.
ht
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