CORBA26 — simple ELEMENT definition

I have a question about the property.dtd file provided with the CCM spec.

in this file "simple" is described as follow:

<!ELEMENT simple
( description?
, value
, choices?
, defaultvalue?
) >

This seems to indicate that a "simple" element has to have a value in the
file. Therefore it is not clear how usefull is the optional "defaultvalue"
field. It also means that if the component or assembly provider wants to
provide the CPF files with the CCD and CAD files it has to put values into
them instead of just setting the default value. Obviously the best thing to
do would be to repeat the default value into the value but it seems strange
to me. The point is that if there is a default value provided the value
doesn't seem to be mandatory.

Also, in a way similar to the CAD file, where placement information are
added at deployment time, we may want to enable the component/assembly
provider to provide CPF skeleton files together with the CCD files and
skeleton CAD files. In this case the "simple" element may not contain any
"value".

I propose to replace this definition with:

<!ELEMENT simple
( description?
, value?
, choices?
, defaultvalue?
) >

Any thought

rejected