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RE: Problems with xs:redefine

• To: "'Kasimier Buchcik'" <K.Buchcik@4...>,"'Paul Spencer'" <xml-dev@b...>
• Subject: RE: Problems with xs:redefine
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:55:59 -0000
• Cc: "'ML-xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <1132838567.1290.54.camel@librax>
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> Potential bug in Saxon 8.5.1: I noticed that it does not fire an
> UPA error for the above scenario; on the other hand it does fire the
> error if the @ref attributes are substituted for @name attributes.
> A "different/same element declaration" issue?

Yes, Saxon is testing only that the element declaration is unambiguously
identified; if two distinct particles refer to the same declaration, Saxon
doesn't report an error. It's a known and published limitation of Saxon that
it doesn't implement this bug in the spec ;-)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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