- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:36:16 -0500
- To: "Bob Schloss" <rschloss@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Bob: the <element ref="..."/> construction always resolves to a global
element declaration. From [1] (4.3.1 XML Representation of Attribute Declaration Schema Components):
...otherwise (the element element information item has complexType or
group as an ancestor and the ref [attribute] is present), the
corresponding schema component is as follows (unless
minOccurs=maxOccurs=0, in which case the item corresponds to no component
at all):
Particle Schema Component
=========================
{min occurs} The numeric normalized value of the minOccurs [attribute], if
present, otherwise 1
{max occurs} unbounded, if the maxOccurs [attribute] equals unbounded,
otherwise the numeric normalized value of the maxOccurs [attribute], if
present, otherwise 1.
{term} The >>>(global)<<< element declaration resolved to by the
normalized value of the ref [attribute].
All of the above is easier to read in the formatted original, but note the
"(global)" in the final sentence. That's where you discover that a ref
can never be to a local element.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#declare-element
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