- From: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:27:56 -0600
- To: Pierre Attar <pat@tireme.fr>
- Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, XMLSchema-dev <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
On Mar 25, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Pierre Attar wrote: > > > When trying to write this schema, my assumption was a little bit DTD like interpretation : the first defininition is the right one. That's true for entity and attribute declarations in DTDs, but not for element declarations (which lead to errors when duplicated) or attribute-list declarations (which accumulate). An idea very similar to your operating assumption was in fact proposed (a sort of schema-component search path), but I am ashamed to relate that it was not taken very seriously and was not adopted. The XSD rules for include and import might have been much easier to understand (and thus easier to write without contradictions) has the WG adopted it. But the majority of the WG thought that it would be too error-prone. -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net ****************************************************************
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