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"Anderson, John" <John@B...> writes: <snip/> > Restriction is reuse by copy, not reuse by inheritance. > > Maybe I'm wrong about this, and the entire CT definition doesn't have to be > duplicated in the restriction, but I've tried to get clarification of this > in the past without much success, and the XSD primer and any experts I've > heard talk about it say this is the case. Yes, but good style therefore suggests using a named model group for the unchanged parts, in which the schema processor will do the copying for you. > PS: TANSTAAFL is too long an acronym to parse. It sounds like the name of a > South African province. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch -- for its use in computer context see "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Robert Heinlein. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2002, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]
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