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Re: Restriction+choice+substitutionGroup

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:44:42 +0100
To: "Martin Thomson" <martin.thomson@nortel.com>
Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <f5b4qe01ptx.fsf@erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk>

"Martin Thomson" <martin.thomson@nortel.com> writes:

> SQC exhibits the same problem, and incidentally another problem with
> finalDefault.

That's disappointing. . .

> An in a similar vein, if the following statement is applied:
>     Note: Although the ·validation· semantics of a choice group does
>     not depend on the order of its particles, derived choice groups
>     are required to match the order of their base in order to simplify
>     checking that the derivation is OK.
> How does the validating parser know the "order" of the elements in a
> substitution group?

Yes, that's a long-standing glitch in the REC, which will be fixed in
1.1 we hope.  Perhaps that's why SQC is complaining . . .

ht
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