- From: <Paul.V.Biron@kp.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:24:26 -0800
- To: mike@saxonica.com
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org, xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org
> The definition itself seems nonsense when you read it carefully. What > actually seems to have happened is that XML Schema includes some features > which are provided only to make life easier for people moving forward from > DTDs. These features are provided "for compatibility". Actually, the reasoning was the other way around...although you are right that the definition we ended up with doesn't really reflect that reasoning. What was meant was that if you use NMTOKEN only on attributes then you can be sure that (that portion of) your schema could be translated to a DTD. I completely agree that this sense of compatibility isn't really important...but there were a number of people back in 1999/2000 who thought it was/would be. pvb
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