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Len writes:
> This appears to be the long awaited and somewhat dreaded
> attempt to use instance syntax for type definitions. It
> is an idea that has been floated several times on the
> XML WG list and generally resisted.
It was resisted, correctly in my view, as a component of XML-lang
itself, and in the decision the point was made several times that the
right place for this was one level up, as a generic application.
That's what the schema proposal in the XML-data document is aimed at
providing.