• From: "Ghislain Fourny" <gfourny@i...>
• To: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 12:53:32 +0000

Dear Roger,

> Do multiple ref's to the same element constitute a violation of the Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle? 

I would say on the contrary that it implements this principle. @ref can be seen as a foreign key referencing the @name primary key, which is thus a higher "normal form”.

Kind regards,
Ghislain

• References:
  • [XSD question] Does ref'ing to the same global element declarationmultiple times violate the Don't Repeat Yourself principle?
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>