- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Mar 2001 15:40:55 +0100
- To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org, jeffrafter@earthlink.net
"Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org> writes:
> I was recently pointed to an interesting item on the web page for the
> current status of XSV. It states:
>
> "Handle shadowing of e.g. elementFormDefault in <include>d schemas
> correctly"
>
> Can someone please tell me what this means? It seems to be saying that
> the value of elementFormDefault in an including schema overrides
> (shadows) the value of elementFormDefault in the schema that it is
> including. As far as I know, a schema's elementFormDefault is never
> overridden (shadowed) by another schema. Can someone explain this
> please? /Roger
Other way 'round -- the declaration in the include_d_ schema overrides
that in the includ_ing_ schema. Sorry if 'shadow' was a misleading
word to use.
ht
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