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xml-dev
Re: [xml-dev] QNames in attribute values
by Ronald Bourret other posts by this author
Jan 29 2002 9:31AM messages near this date
Re: [xml-dev] QNames in attribute values | Re: [xml-dev] QNames in attribute values
Ronald Bourret wrote:
>  
>  Evan Lenz wrote:
>  > Is it too late to fix this? W3C specs would have to change. My question is:
>  > who else uses QNames in attribute values? Is there no turning back?
>  
>  Anybody who wants to represent graphs at the schema level.

I thought again and realized it's more general than that. Qnames in
attribute values are useful to anyone who wants to point to element
types (as opposed to elements). This represents a good-sized class of
metadata-driven applications.

-- Ron

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