[Bug 6513] [XQuery] inconsistent terminology in definition of derives-from()

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6513





--- Comment #3 from Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>  2009-02-02 01:01:04 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> I think that using "known" to mean "present in the ISSD" is unfortunate, since
> the whole idea behind the rules in 2.5.4 is that the processor may have
> knowledge of types that have not been explicitly imported, and may use this
> knowledge.

Agreed.

> So rather than using "known" more widely, I would prefer to use a more
> helpful term like "declared".

I'd be in favour of a better term than "known", but I don't think
"declared" is it, because I can easily imagine a type being declared
(in a schema somewhere) but not present in the ISSD. Instead, I think
the clearest abbreviation would be "in scope". That is:

    AT is in scope  (or, AT is an in-scope type)
      ==
    AT is a schema type found/defined in the 'in-scope schema definitions'


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