Re: [Moderator Action] Inheritance and Identity-constraint

Faroukh Fekravar <fekravar@austin.apc.slb.com> writes:

> I don't understand why the second alternative (define the key within the Item
> element itself)
> is useless and moreover why it's not equal to the first one.

Because the location of the definition determines the scope of the
identity constraint.  Defining it on Item itself amounts to saying
"The value of the Id attribute of an Item is unique within that Item", 
which is trivially satisfied.

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