• To: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Subject: Re: Substitution Groups
• From: ht@i... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:36:26 +0000
• Cc: "'Paul Spencer'" <xml-dev@b...>, "'Xml-Dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <E1D2SuA-0001VN-00@u...> (Michael Kay's messageof "Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:36:00 -0000")
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"Michael Kay" <mike@s...> writes:

>> 
>> You gloss is not accurate.  The REC also says, wrt the semantics of
>> <import> [1], 
>
> We had a discussion on this on xmlschema-dev in October and I thought the
> conclusion was that 3.15.3 was indeed flawed. 
>
> If document A includes document B (or if C includes A and B), the components
> defined in A are never added to the "appropriate property of the schema
> which corresponds to the document B", and under 3.15.3 they are therefore
> not available to discharge QName references in B.

Sorry, I was confused by the context, which was Paul Spencer's
<import> example.

You're right, the impact of need for laziness has not always made it
to ever corner of the spec. that it needs to -- we're working on
getting composition right in XML Schema 1.1.

ht
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