On 06/13/2016 07:05 PM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
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> The creators of XML Schema had remarkable foresight!
I wouldn't put it as strongly as that :-)
> How did the creators of XML Schema know that people would utilize
> foreign attributes
I don't know if they did, but someone undoubtedly will.
The use of attributes in a different namespace is a feature of XML.
W3C Schemas just happen to share the syntax. Nothing special there.
> to create entirely new, unforeseen technologies?
I think all of us hoped that XML would be used and reused to do this:
this is part of why it's extensible.
///Peter
