Here's what the XML Schema 1.1 specification says:

   The <redefine> construct is *deprecated*

/Roger 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@r...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:26 AM
> To: noah_mendelsohn@u...; Costello, Roger L.
> Cc: xmlschema-dev@w...; sandygao@c...
> Subject: Re: [Update #2] XML Schema 1.1 Tutorial
> 
> On 8/12/09 10:14 AM, "noah_mendelsohn@u..."
> <noah_mendelsohn@u...> wrote:
> 
> > Overall, I think this is excellent, and much improved from the first
> > version.  One quibble, though reasonable people might 
> disagree with my
> > position on this:
> > 
> > You say on Slide 25 that <redefine> is deprecated, but that 
> is followed in
> > the CR draft with a feedback request asking the community 
> whether such
> > deprecation is a good idea.  Speaking for myself (not IBM), 
> I think it's
> > too early to deprecate redefine.  It's a supported feature 
> of 1.0, and as
> > far as I know it's widely used.  Although there's some optimism that
> > <override> will be a good substitute, that's as yet 
> unproven and in any
> > case deprecating features that users have already deployed 
> at best tends
> > to make them nervous.
> 
> The DITA standard depends entirely on the redefine feature in 
> XSD 1.0. While
> we are hoping that XSD 1.1 provides a better alternative to 
> redefine, until
> it's both defined and implemented sufficiently widely (e.g., 
> in Xerces and
> other widely-used XML parsers) we cannot move away from the 
> use of redefine.
> 
> For DITA's sake, I agree with Noah that deprecating redefine 
> in XSD 1.1
> would be premature and probably result in serious PR 
> difficulties for DITA,
> where use of XSD is already dicey because of the current 
> implementation
> status and spec ambiguity of redefine in XSD 1.0.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eliot
> 
> 
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