Re: Omission in <element> constraint in Schema Structures spec

mhuffman@ca.ibm.com writes:

> Thank you, Henry.
> 
> I see in SforS that attributes "substitutionGroup" and "final" have use
> ="prohibited" for local elements.  That leaves "abstract" and "form".
> I don't believe they apply to a local element with ref="...".  Is this
> explicitly specified somewhere else in the spec documents? If not, can they
> simply be added to the other "must be absent" attributes in the constraint
> I referenced below?

Thanks for pushing on this.  I need to check a bit further, but I
think you're right that
 
 a) abstract doesn't belong on local elements, with or without ref;
 b) form doesn't belong on local elements with ref.

ht
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