[Bug 5096] section 4 Schemas misleading wrt what sml defines for refs

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5096

           Summary: section 4 Schemas misleading wrt what sml defines for
                    refs
           Product: SML
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: editorial
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: cmsmcq@w3.org
        ReportedBy: johnarwe@us.ibm.com
         QAContact: public-sml@w3.org


Current text
"References – XML Schema does not have any support for inter-document
references, although it does support intra-document references through xs:ID,
xs:IDREF, xs:key and xs:keyref. Inter-document references are fundamental to
SML since a document is a unit of versioning. SML extends XML Schema to support
inter-document references and a set of constraints on inter-document
references."

The last sentence could be read to imply that SML defines ONLY cross-document
refs (not true, as we know) and that its constraints ONLY apply to
cross-document refs (also untrue).

Proposal: change last sentence above
from "...inter-document references and a set of constraints on inter-document
references"
to "...references that may cross document boundaries, and a set of constraints
on those references that apply regardless of whether they cross document
boundaries or not."

Received on Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:42:32 UTC