Jean-François Michaud wrote:
> Peter Flynn wrote:
>> Jean-François Michaud wrote:
>>> david.deridder@a... wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to specify in my XSD that the "Documentation" element can
>>>> be added everywhere in the XML document. A bit like the
>>>> xs:documentation node.
>> [...]
>>> What you are asking for is equivalent to an inclusion in SGML. You
>>> might want to look the SGML way if its an option to you. The price you
>>> pay for more flexibility is a bigger complexity headache :).
>> One of the papers at the Extreme Markup meeting in Montreal earlier this
>> month suggested that some SGML features omitted from XML (including
>> Inclusion Exceptions) be reconsidered for a future version. Publishers
>> have a number of serious requirements which XML is currently unable to
>> support.
> 
> This would considerably enhance the expressive power of XML. I think it
> would be a good thing :). But they have to be careful not to complexify
> too much either. The advantage that XML has over SGML is its
> simplicity.

Yes, this is why it's unlikely to happen. Sadly the use of XML for 
dealing with real-life text documents was sidelined in the mad rush
to use XML for handling data, for which it is not always suited.

///Peter