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Re: Best Practice - beyond schema

• To: "Anderson, John" <John@B...>
• Subject: Re: Best Practice - beyond schema
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: 18 Jun 2002 12:46:31 +0100
• Cc: Xml-Dev <xml-dev@l...>
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"Anderson, John" <John@B...> writes:

> Unfortunately, this mechanism below would not seem to remove mainteneance of
> multiple schemas. If you use restriction, any change to the global type will
> (potentially) require all the redefines also to be modified (or at least,
> checked for consistency).

TANSTAAFL -- the whole _point_ of using derivation is so that changes
to the base carry through to the derived types -- if they make changes 
to a changed part, then they have to change too -- how else could it
be?

ht
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