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   RE: [xml-dev] Subtyping in XML

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Ahh, redefinition. This isn't really type derivation since redefinition
is pervasive. Actually it is much worse especially since you can't
prevent redefinition like you can derivation or substitution. 

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>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@scenicsoft.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:55 AM
> To: 'ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk'; Paul Prescod
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> 
> Okay, I've got my mind right. 
> 
> It's not an enumeration of simpletype values that I remember, 
> but more along the lines of Paul's example, below.  The 
> example is from Eric vdV's book, p.
> 203 (paraphrased below):
> 
> <group name="name">
>     <choice>
>          <element ref="a"/>
>          <element ref="b"/>
>     </choice>
>  </group>
> 
> <redefine schemaLocation="foo.xsd">
>        <group name="name">
>               <choice>
>                   <group ref="name"/>
>                  <element ref="c"/>
>               </choice>
>         </group>
> </redefine>
> 
> Quoth:  "... the effect of this redefinition is to allow a 
> new element ([c]) to be accepted instead of a [a] or [b]."
> 
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