- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Oct 2002 22:57:47 +0000
- To: Eddie Robertsson <erobertsson@allette.com.au>
- Cc: Evgeny Sologubov <Eugals@mail.ru>, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Never say 'never' :-)
I agree with all of Eddie's reply, except for the last bit:
Eddie Robertsson <erobertsson@allette.com.au> writes:
> Since a derivation by extension always creates the new type by
> "sequencing" together the content in the base type with the content
> in the derived type you can *never* use <xs:all> as part of an
> extension.
If the base type def'n was empty and the extension was all and only a
valid <all>, I think the sequence is waived and the result would be OK.
ht
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