- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 05 Jan 2001 14:51:32 +0000
- To: "Bob Schloss" <rschloss@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
"Bob Schloss" <rschloss@us.ibm.com> writes:
> The NOTEs that appear at the ends of Structures sections 6.2.1, 6.2.2 and
> 6.2.3 state that
> doing the same include, import or redefine more than once should be
> allowed.
>
> A phrase is used about "forestalling the necessity of establishing identity
> component
> by component".
>
> I did not find a definition of component identity in the spec.
>
> Does identity mean two components
> with the same name (same TNS and same component/local name) and the
> same component type (such as model group, type, global element...)?
Yes.
> Or is it two components with the same name, type and the same
> definition (e.g. content models are the same)? Or is it something
> else?
No and No.
> I imagine a situation where the same schema file is not imported multiple
> times, but
> a defintion in one imported (or included) file is the same as a definition
> in the importing file or in
> a second imported file, and I want to understand if this is an error or
> not.
It's an error.
ht
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