RE: [xml-dev] XML Schema Design: no local elements with anonymous types

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> Yeah, but that basically means you pass globally declared 
> elements or elements with globally declared types as 
> parameters to functions to get that kind of static type checking.
> 
> For XQuery, that's not usually a big hurdle. Is it for XSLT?

It's a big hurdle if the schema has been written making heavy use of
locally-declared elements and anonymous types, which is the point of Roger's
advice not to do that.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/