Re: Enumeration syntax

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> was heard to say:
| <choice>
|    <value type="xsd:token">foo</value>
|    <value type="xsd:token">bar</value>
| </choice>
| 
| looks nicer if we can default type on <value> to the builtin token type.  My

Sorry if I've missed something in my struggle to catch up, but in what
sense is xsd:token the builtin token type? I thought we were
datatype-vocabulary neutral, allowing a binding to xsd if desired?

| guess is that the overwhelmingly majority of enumerations are tokens or
| types derived from tokens (which is almost equivalent to token from the
| point of view of what's allowed in the instance).  Indeed this is the only
| case supported by SGML and XML 1.0. If we default the type attribute, then
| the common case would be written as:
| 
| <choice>
|   <value>foo</value>
|   <value>bar</value>
| </choice>

That is compelling.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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