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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:40 AM
> To: Jochen Wiedmann
> Cc: Kohsuke Kawaguchi; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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> Why the nonsense with "final" and "block"?
> </Excerpt3>
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> Not sure what "nonsense" you mean - these attributes have
> well-defined and useful application. The "final" attribute
> is used to prohibit complex datatype derivation, while the
> "restriction" attribute is used to prohibit the use of
> derived complex datatypes. There are distinct cases in which
> these are needed.
I'm sorry but the behavior of final & block attributes is nonesensical
and rarely "needed" especially when one considers that few people even
within the W3C XML Schema working group can clearly spell out tell the
difference between final & block on element declarations vs. complex
type definitions.
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