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

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

<snip/>

> Restriction is reuse by copy, not reuse by inheritance.
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong about this, and the entire CT definition doesn't have to be
> duplicated in the restriction, but I've tried to get clarification of this
> in the past without much success, and the XSD primer and any experts I've
> heard talk about it say this is the case.

Yes, but good style therefore suggests using a named model group for
the unchanged parts, in which the schema processor will do the copying 
for you.

> PS: TANSTAAFL is too long an acronym to parse. It sounds like the name of a
> South African province.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch -- for its use in computer
context see "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Robert Heinlein.

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