- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 06 Feb 2001 08:42:21 +0000
- To: afo@zurich.ibm.com
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Thanks for catching this. The quote from section 3.4 [1] is a mistake --
it's in the informal section, whereas the formal semantics [2] makes
clear you can't _use_ an abstract type to validate an EII. Otherwise
the perfectly sensible abstract-element-with-abstract-type in content
model would be disallowed.
However, your general point, which is that a schema must be error-free
to serve as the target for redefinition, still stands, and I don't
think it should be changed.
ht
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Complex_Type_Definition_details
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#cvc-complex-type
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