Re: Closing of W3C XML Schema Issue #2832

Thank you Noah for informing me of the Schema Working Group's disposition 
of this issue.  I understand the workload that the Working Group is 
facing, and appreciate that it isn't always possible to close off on every 
edge-case.  Especially since it's difficult to imagine what practical 
purpose the application of identity constraints to URtypes would serve, 
I'm content with the (perhaps indefinite) postponement of this issue.

Thanks,
Neil
Neil Graham
Manager, C++ Compiler Front-End and Runtime Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Phone:  905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519
E-mail:  neilg@ca.ibm.com





Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM@LOTUS 
04/11/07 06:58 PM

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Neil Graham/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
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Sandy Gao/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Subject
Closing of W3C XML Schema Issue #2832





Neil,

You reported to the XML Schema workgroup an issue that we have been 
tracking in our bug reporting system as our bug #2832 [1].  The XML Schema 
workgroup most recenty discussed this issue on its teleconference of 28 
March 2007.  The members of the workgroup could not at that time reach 
consensus on making any changes to be reflected in XML Schema 1.1.  Since 
the concerns you raised are believed to have merit, the issue is being 
closed for now with a status of LATER, which we use as an indicator of 
issues that we may wish to revisit if at some point in the future a 
version of XML Schema beyond version 1.1 is released.  I am sorry that we 
did not make more progress on this issue at this time, but I hope that you 
find this resolution to be acceptable.  Thank you.

Noah

[1] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2832

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