- From: David E. Cleary <davec@progress.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:10:43 -0500
- To: "Mark Feblowitz" <mfeblowitz@frictionless.com>, "Xmlschema-Dev \(E-mail\)" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> Prompted by something that I saw in the Dublin Core discussion, I noticed > the definition of an attribute that is a reference to xml:lang. > > If I intend to provide 0..unbounded Description elements, each with a > corresponding language attribute (reflecting the language of the > Description's text), I could represent it as: > > <xs:attribute ref="xml:lang"/> > > or as > <xs:attribute name="lang" type="xs:language"/> > > Is there any meaningful difference between the two? What are the relative > merits of each approach? The first one is the official xml:lang attribute as specified by XML 1.0. The second is a lang atrribute that is either unqualified, or in the Schema target namespace depending on the setting of attributeFormDefault. David Cleary the Progress Company
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