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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