floating attributes in XSchema Spec Section 2.4, Draft 2

[Simon St.Laurent]

Chris Maden writes:
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> In XSchema 1.0, an attribute declaration (XSC:AttDef element) must
> be nested within the element declaration (XSC:ElementDecl element)
> for the element to which the attribute belongs.

This gives less functionality than XML DTDs, since you can have
multiple ATTLISTs for one element type.  XSchema should provide that;
maybe

<!ATTLIST XSC:AttDef
          ElementType NMTOKEN #IMPLIED>

If the AttDef specifies an ElementType, it applies to the named
element type.  If not, and it is contained in an ElementDecl, then it
applies to that element type; otherwise it is an error.
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This is acceptable to me, though I still maintain a preference for what I 
consider the much more easily read (and even managed, in my world) nesting 
solution.  This is a moderate solution that certainly expands the capabilities 
of XSchema without exploding everything open.  XSchema processors should be 
able to normalize this without too much hell breaking loose.

Simon St.Laurent
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