Re: Default for attribute of type Qname - What PSVI contribution? from Henry S. Thompson on 2003-03-26 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from March 2003)

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Mar 2003 10:10:10 +0000
To: "Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@mclink.it>
Cc: "[Public XML Schema DEV]" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <f5b4r5q781p.fsf@erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk>

"Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@mclink.it> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I have a few questions.
> 
> If an attribute of type QName has a default and the attribute is absent
> in an instance, what will be exactly the PSVI contribution?

Nobody knows :-(.  There's a gap in the RECs there, as you correctly
identify below, which we're working on fixing.  For the time being, I
would recommend against giving defaults for items of type QName.

ht
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