- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Feb 2000 10:03:02 +0000
- To: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Philip Wadler <wadler@research.bell-labs.com> writes:
> Henry writes:
>
> > As currently spec'ed you can only nominate a global element as the
> > exemplar of an equivalence class, so you example is invalid to start
> > with.
>
> Thanks, that answers my first question (as I suspected, in the negative).
> But not my second, repeated here.
>
> > If it's not possible, what was the rationale for omitting it?
>
> By the way, I consider this on the critical path to getting a report
> out the door, in the sense that the report needs to explain rationales
> for this and other decisions. Cheers, -- P
W3C specs do _not_ contain rationales for their design decisions:
that would make them monsters beyond reading.
The rationale in this case is that there is no guarantee of uniqueness
of reference: there can be multiple local element declarations with the same
name within different complex types, and thus no way with a 'ref'
attribute of type QName to distinguish between them. XPath could do
it, but the additional complexity was not judged worth the marginal
increase in functionality.
ht
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