Suman That is exactly what Mike is suggesting. If you look at Table 7 in the spec (section 7.1) and the wording about short form in section 7.1.3.3 then the natural assumption is that DFDL attributes on xs:schema would be allowed as the short form of the anonymous dfdl:format annotation's properties. If a property occurs in both short form and attribute/element form that is a schema definition error as per section 7.1.3. So, are there any reasons why this should not be allowed? I can recall this being discussed in the past but I don't remember a conclusion. The only reason I can think of is that it would easy for a human reader to miss DFDL properties on xs:schema because of all the namespace attributes that typically occur there. But that's just a formatting/style thing. Regards Steve Hanson Architect, Data Format Description Language (DFDL) Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group IBM SWG, Hursley, UK smh@uk.ibm.com tel:+44-1962-815848 From: Suman Kalia <kalia@ca.ibm.com> To: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> Cc: dfdl-wg@ogf.org, dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org Date: 05/12/2011 00:55 Subject: Re: [DFDL-WG] short form on xs:schema? Sent by: dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org One way to view this annotation would be as if it is defined on the default format at the xs:schema.. Question would be what if dfdl:format at xs:schema also has dfdl:encoding specified - which one would win ?.. Suman Kalia IBM Canada Lab WMB Toolkit Architect and Development Lead Tel: 905-413-3923 T/L 313-3923 Email: kalia@ca.ibm.com For info on Message broker http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/businessintegration/wmb.ht... From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> To: dfdl-wg@ogf.org Date: 12/02/2011 05:46 PM Subject: [DFDL-WG] short form on xs:schema? Sent by: dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org I don't know that we ever talked about this. Most schema constructs support short form <xs:element ... dfdl:encoding="utf-8" /> Does the xs:schema itself support short form for the "default" format properties? <xs:schema xmlns:xs="...." dfdl:encoding="utf-8"> ... </xs:schema> -- Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL WG Co-Chair Tel: 781-330-0412 -- dfdl-wg mailing list dfdl-wg@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/dfdl-wg -- dfdl-wg mailing list dfdl-wg@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/dfdl-wg Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU