RE: Is this schema valid?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 1:10 AM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Is this schema valid?
> 
> "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com> writes:
> 
> > Is there any reason why myDCT is an invalid restriction of myCT?
> > Intuitively it seems it is not but there is verbiage that may imply 
> > that it is.
> 
> Sigh.  It's not valid as a restriction, because the Emp type 
> definition is not derived _by restriction_ from the ur type.  
> XSV gets this wrong :-(.
> 
> I could go either way on whether this is a bug or not . . .

I believe it is a bug in the spec to disallow this derivation. I'll
contact our working group rep about bringing this up formally. 

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