Re: concrete syntax for derivation

James:
The sub-text is that someday we may want to allow types to be derived from
other types by a variety of operations.  Add-at-the-end would be one of
them
but we may want to allow others such as add-at-start, reorder-contents,
etc.
To leave the door open for the syntax specifies both the source type and
the
operation that creates the new type.

Having said that, I would prefer that
   derivedBy="extension"
be replaced by
        derivedBy="appending"

All the best, Ashok


James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> on 12/18/99 01:41:16 AM

To:   XML Schema Comments <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
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Subject:  concrete syntax for derivation




I find the current syntax for derivation

  <type name="extendedName" source="personName" derivedBy="extension">

highly cumbersome and unintuitive. Why not the obvious and much simpler
syntax of

  <type name="extendedName" extends="personName">

?

James

Received on Monday, 20 December 1999 12:52:58 UTC