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   Re: [xml-dev] Best Practice - beyond schema

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"Anderson, John" <John@Barbadosoft.com> writes:

> Unfortunately, this mechanism below would not seem to remove mainteneance of
> multiple schemas. If you use restriction, any change to the global type will
> (potentially) require all the redefines also to be modified (or at least,
> checked for consistency).

TANSTAAFL -- the whole _point_ of using derivation is so that changes
to the base carry through to the derived types -- if they make changes 
to a changed part, then they have to change too -- how else could it
be?

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