Primer description 4.4 Deriving Complex Types by Restriction

> The primer has an example of deriving a complex type, "ConfirmedItems", from an existing complex type, "ipo:Items".
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> The base complex type has an element defined locally with a locally defined type.
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> The derived type is attempting to restrict the occurance of the base's locally defined element.
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> There is a note in the Structures Spec, Schema Component Constraint: Particle Restriction OK (Elt:Elt -- NameAndTypeOK), stating
> NOTE: The above constraint on {type definition} <\l >  means that in deriving a type by restriction, any contained type definitions must themselves be explicitly derived by restriction from the corresponding type definitions in the base definition. 
> The not seems to say that the type associated with the elements must also be derived from the base, yet the Primer's example is working with only locally defined types.
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> Question1: Is the Primer example in 4.4 a valid representation of a restriction?
> Question2: For the purposes of derivation, are two local elements with locally defined types supposed to be treated as identical or should the element be defined globally and then referred to?
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> Thanks,
>                                                             
> Dave Brown
> *	Software Design Engineer/Test
> *	davebrow@microsoft.com
> *	(425) 705 - 0804
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Received on Monday, 26 November 2001 14:47:08 UTC