• From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...>
• To: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 07:59:28 -0500

On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 12:44:47 +0000, Roger L Costello wrote:
> Do multiple ref's to the same element constitute a violation of the 
> Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle?

No.

References (of the sort that you intend to use here) are useless unless 
they can be reused; the point here is that the multiple references to a 
single definition reduce repetition, redundancy, and the risk of 
multiple copies of a definition falling out of synchronization.

Amy!
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• 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...>