- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:53:09 -0000
- To: "'Ramkumar Menon'" <ramkumar.menon@gmail.com>, "'Mukul Gandhi'" <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Received on Sunday, 19 February 2006 12:53:25 UTC
> Is there any special reason why such a simple scenario is so complex to support witihn XSD ? I have heard people defend it on the basis that they think it's good practice to constrain the order of elements, so there is no need for language facilities that encourage designs in which the order is unconstrained. I think there's also a history in that the SGML facilities to allow interleaved orderings proved troublesome, so they were left out of XML DTDs, and XML Schema wasn't trying to allow more in this area than DTDs allowed. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
Received on Sunday, 19 February 2006 12:53:25 UTC