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At 05:25 PM 07/10/97 -0700, Andrew Layman wrote: >We are seeing that on this list also. Clearly inheritance is going to >be difficult to work out. I'm really glad Andrew posted that. I have heard too many people, not just on this list, saying things like |-parameter entities | |-architectural forms | "Well, of course-<--DTDs >--support O-O inheritence." |-HyTime | |-Hypertext in general | |-Document schemas | After years of struggle, we've got a pretty good handle on how to do some useful kinds of inheritence with reasonable safety, in the software module world. Documents are different. To start with, it's far from clear to me that the term "inheritance," standing by itself, has a useful semantic in the context of documents. This has a practical consequence. We should, in future, struggle for greater precision; for example, however it is clear that however LOCATOR attributes depend on those in the parent EXTENDED linking element, it ain't inheritance in the O-O style. -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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