Re: xs:any vs. xs:element ref for including external schemas

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Pete Cordell writes:

> The downside of the latter is that it implies to me that the XHTML is
> very much a part of the containing schema, whereas the xs:any method
> implies to me that the containing schema is more of an envelope
> (e.g. there is some layering going on).
>
> Am I alone in inferring this, or do others read this sort of thing
> into their schemas?

I don't know about 'alone', but I guess I don't interpret <any> vs
<element ref=[foreign elt]> in the way you do -- either one can be for
integrating locally-controlled vocabularies or for allowing foreign
vocabularies to 'plug in' -- the difference is signalled for me by the
namespace, not the schema mechanism used to allow it.

ht
- -- 
 Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh
                     Half-time member of W3C Team
    2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440
            Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk
                   URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
[mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGaTNrkjnJixAXWBoRAsFrAJ4ns9KTvdYejqQ+nIupSHQQfmyngACffgfm
4J+54Em7NFZ3WD3We9W1Bmk=
=eyBX
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----