Re: Issue: overriding attributes

[Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI <kohsuke.kawaguchi@eng.sun.com>]

> everything seems to translate quite straightfowardly.  However, there's one
> capability that W3C XML Schema has which we don't have.

That is not the only one we don't have.

- the capability to declare patterns as a restriction of another and
  let the processor check it.

- multipart key

- runtime type substitution by using xsi:type. From the way I see it, this
  is by far the biggest problem.

- lax validation

... and more.


So as for your proposal, I don't think it's necessary.

1. I don't think its widely used, nor it's a good technique as David
   says.
2. The complexity for the implementation/spec is non-trivial. 


regards,
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Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI                          +1 650 786 0721
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