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.

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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?
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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 ?..


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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?
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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>



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