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"Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@h...> writes:
> <snip/>
Everything above here is fine.
> "Locally scoped attribute and element declarations are special with
> regard to symbol spaces. Every complex type definition defines its
> own local attribute and element declaration symbol spaces, where
> these symbol spaces are distinct from each other and from any of the
> other symbol spaces."
>
> This statement makes:
>
> <element name="foo">
> <complexType>
> <element name="bar" type="string"/>
> <element name="bar" type="string"/>
> </complexType>
> </element>
>
> illegal (regardless of the value of type) since you have duplicate
> declarations of the same element name within the same symbol space.
> Though it is concievable that you could have sub-symbol spaces
> within a complex type (a symbol space for each group, for example)
> and intra-complex type references to locally-scoped elements, I
> can't see that as being justified at this point.
A misunderstanding on your part: this is specifically allowed, because
there is in fact only one tag-type binding in this local context. In
other words, the value of type _does_ matter.
ht
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