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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI" <kohsukekawaguchi@y...> To: "Jeff Lowery" <jlowery@s...>; "Eddie Robertsson" <eddie@a...>; <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:17 PM Subject: Re: ANN: XML Schema: DOs and DON'Ts > > > > I understand that you can't believe what I said. But the fact is, the > > > spec explicitly prohibits this. If you have some time and plenty > > > of patience, see the spec: > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#rcase-Recurse > > > > Looking at this, I see rules for model groups, not enumeration facets. I > > don't believe enumerations facets are order-dependent, if that's your point. > > Restriction of enumerations is allowed, and such appears in the Schema for > > Schemas (Normative) section of the Recommendation. > > Maybe I'm missing something big, but when did we talk about restriction > of simple type by enumerations? > > I think we are talking about restriction of <all> particle. We are. The example given is; Base type: <xs:all> <xs:element name="a" /> <xs:element name="b" /> <xs:element name="c" /> </xs:all> New type derived by restriction: <xs:all> <xs:element name="b" /> <xs:element name="a" /> </xs:all> and you are correct, it's *not* a valid restriction because in restriction you *must* list the particles in the same order in the derived type as they were in the base type. Reversing the order of the element decls for a and b in this case is what causes the problem. I still don't really get the thrust of the document though... I think that rather than saying 'use model groups instead of complex types' ( which is, in fact, impossible ) you want to say 'use anonymous complex types instead of named complex types' and possibly 'do not use type inheritance'. As stated earlier I don't agree with either of these positions but I think they more accurately capture the direction you are taking. Talking about model groups the way you do is as confusing as the way you talk about attribute groups, to me, at least because you can only use model groups as part of complex types. Martin
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