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Yes, in the process of making the few minor changes for version 1.1, some redundancies were removed as well: minOccurs="1", maxOccurs="1" and type="string" are all redundant declaration and many have been removed. The remaining string declarations will be removed before this is finalized. --Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "chris vicary" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [PIG] Removal of Min and Max Occurences > This change is OK, the 2 statements are semantically identical. In > XMLSchema, the default for minOccurs and maxOccurs is 1, meaning that > the element is mandatory and non-repeatable in the absence of occurrence > constraints. > > Chris > > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:08 +0100, Adam Rusbridge wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking at the v1.1 schemas you have just released, and have noticed > > that you have removed restrictions on the usage of elements. > > > > For example, > > > > <xs:element name="objectIdentifierType" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" > > type="xs:string"> > > > > has become > > > > <xs:element name="objectIdentifierType" type="xs:string"> > > > > As the 'repeatability' and 'obligation' of these elements are specified > > in the data dictionary, it seemed to make sense that this also be > > included in the schema itself. Can you please indicate why this was removed? > > > > Best regards, > > Adam > >