Re: Restrictions and element namespaces

"Fuchs, Matthew" <matthew.fuchs@commerceone.com> writes:

> > The element declaration is what it is, regardless of what its
> > enclosing type definition may be based on.  
> 
> This essentially means that if you use elementForm="qualified" for a local
> type, then you cannot restrict that local type in any schema with a
> different targetNamespace.

Correct -- I only realised this in this form a few weeks ago.

> This is certainly consistent in its own way, so not an a priori
> erratum.  However, it's certainly a major restriction on
> restriction.  If anyone needed a good reason not to muck with the
> defaults, this is it.

Note that appeal to the extensional definition of restriction makes it 
pretty clear why things have to work the way they do, absent wholesale 
changes.> 

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