- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Feb 2001 10:13:54 +0000
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: XML Schema Comments <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> writes:
> Schemas part 2 provides three elements for deriving new types:
>
> - list
> - union
> - restriction
>
> Each of these elements has an attribute specifying the type or types
> from which the new type is derived:
>
> - "list" has a "itemType" attribute
> - "union" has a "memberTypes" attribute
> - "restriction" has a "base" attribute
>
> Surely it would be more consistent for the attribute on "restriction" to
> be "baseType" rather than "base".
Yes in principle, but in practice we are used to it by now, and didn't
think anything would be gained by a change at this late date.
(personal opinion, the WG hasn't discussed this)
ht
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