Agreed on WG call that we would use language like "XSD's nillable attribute" and "XSD's fixed attribute", and so forth.

Regards

Steve Hanson
Architect, Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh@uk.ibm.com
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From:        Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
To:        dfdl-wg@ogf.org,
Date:        28/01/2013 16:59
Subject:        [DFDL-WG] Use of xs:fixed and xs: prefix generally on XSD attributes
Sent by:        dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org

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This may be a nit, but in prose when we want to distinguish an xsd attribute from a dfdl attribute or property, we prefix it with xs: as in xs:fixed, xs:nillable, etc.

However, this is technically incorrect as those attributes are in no namespace. (XML Schema of XSD itself uses the default attributeFormDefault which is 'unqualified'.) A reader might think we are referring to some XSD construct they haven't heard of such as an <xs:nillable...> XSD element, but which doesn't exist.

I am ok with keeping things as they are, or we can change to language like "XSD's nillable attribute" and "XSD's fixed attribute", and so forth.

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