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RE: support for substitution groups, support for redefines?

From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:03:42 +0100
To: <lists@jeffrafter.com>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <E1DrWn2-0000oA-FD@lisa.w3.org>
RE: support for substitution groups

> Well, I know I have to be wrong being on the opposite side of an 
> argument from the likes of Simon and Michael, but I still disagree. I 
> think that the <redefine> facility maps very cleanly on to 
> the old DTD 
> practice of redefining items in the internal subset.

That doesn't sound like much of a justification. Why would I want to define
a set of rules that documents must conform to, and then allow the author of
a document to modify those rules for his particular document?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Received on Sunday, 10 July 2005 08:03:55 GMT

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