Re: How to scope the note about D and override(E,D)

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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen writes:

>> To repeat my previous point, I think this or something like it needs
>> to be available to our users, either in an appendix or a Note.
>> 

> If what you want in the Note is procedural pseudo-code instead
> of algebraic manipulations, then the idea of the note is much less
> interesting to me.  The procedural bias of the XSD spec has caused
> nothing but trouble and the sooner we break ourselves of the
> habit of thinking procedurally instead of declaratively, the better
> off our spec will be.

Both would be even better!

> At most, two or three procedural walk-throughs illustrating different
> algorithms for calculating the necessary result may be helpful
> as a way of demonstrating to the skeptical that the results are
> after all calculable.  But -- not one algorithm, but several, to 
> avoid conveying the idea that one way of doing it is normative or
> is preferable to the others.

For sure -- we have two candidates already. . .

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