Original Message From: "Elliotte Harold" <elharo@m...>
> Pete Cordell wrote:
>
>> Mixed is a core feature that XML supports, but does that mean you have to
>> make use of it as a core feature for an application specific XML syntax
>> specification language (e.g. a data oriented schema profile)?
>
> Yes. Failure to fully support the XML infoset would be a disaster for any
> schema language. No particular schema has to use it, but it has to be
> recognized and supported, if for no other reason than to identify it as
> invalid when documents do contain mixed content.

The low level XML parser would have to accept mixed, and the binding logic
would need to handle unexpected mixed content gracefully in the same way
that the whole system might have to handle <<<<< or any other number of
illegal XML syntax gracefully.  But I don't think that means that an domain
specific specification language must be able to specify that some construct
is mixed.

Pete.
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