Re: [ubl] NDR question regarding order of BBIEs and ASBIEs in ABIEs

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2008-06-27 05:00 -0600, stephen.green@systml.co.uk wrote:
>Oops, sorry, I think I misunderstood the question.
>Rereading it I realise you mean the fact that in a document
>or ABIE we have first all the BBIEs then all the ASBIEs (in
>*model* that is and therefore in schema).
>
>This is a modelling issue, not a schema design one so really
>the NDR is not the place for it.
>
>I don't think there is a hard and fast rule since it could
>be that an ABIE needs to be extended with a BBIE and if the
>old concepts of only extending by adding to the end to
>preserve the previous sequence is followed then the BBIE
>would have to follow the previous BBIEs and ASBIEs.

That is exactly my point.  We are reconstituting schemas from revised 
models for our minor versions.  If there is an NDR that orders BBIEs 
before ASBIEs, then we cannot even try to use <xsd:redefine> ... but 
in our research you and I did (two years ago?) I recall we determined 
we couldn't use <xsd:redefine> when we did try.  So do we have to be 
enabled to use something we can't use anyway?

But since we are about to complete this final pass effort to get into 
the NDR document everything we need about the current document 
models, I wanted to be clear whether BBIEs are co-incidentally 
ordered before ASBIEs and are allowed to also be ordered after 
ASBIEs, or if it is mandated they be ordered before ASBIEs.

Thanks.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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