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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