- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 22:04:39 +0100
- To: "'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "'Stuart Gilbert'" <Stu@Better.Domain.Name>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> If order doesn't matter, pick an order and enforce it. > > Both human authors and machines have no trouble with such discipline, > _and_ it makes the resulting documents easier to read. Hmmm: I'm ALWAYS making mistakes with entering data against a schema that arbitrarily requires date before author, when somehow author before date seems more natural. (And yes, I do use tools that prompt me, but I can never remember to stop typing and wait for the prompt). I know why the technology has this restriction, but I think trying to promote it as a benefit is stretching a point! Michael Kay
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