concrete syntax for derivation

From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:41:16 +0700
To: XML Schema Comments <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <385B2C8C.EA48EE4B@jclark.com>

I find the current syntax for derivation

  <type name="extendedName" source="personName" derivedBy="extension">

highly cumbersome and unintuitive. Why not the obvious and much simpler
syntax of

  <type name="extendedName" extends="personName">

?

James

Received on Saturday, 18 December 1999 01:46:50 UTC