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Change the XML representation (and possibly the component structure) of local element declarations to at least allow, if not require, all particles to be references, with scope, i.e. put the local declarations directly under <complexType> (Cf. no-nesting (#no-nesting)). This is subsumed by proposals to deal with RQ-17. Input from Straw Poll O-15 This item was postponed in the meeting of 2004-04-30 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2004May/0007.html). It will stand or fall with the "landscape" (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2004Apr/0091.html) proposal for RQ-017 and friends. If that proposal succeeds, this requirement will be discharged; if not, we are unlikely to do this on its own. This item was discussed in the meeting of 2004-05-20 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2004May/0087.html). Proposal: Asir Vedamuthu (member-only link) (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2002Nov/0100.html) According to the requirements document, this topic was discussed in the past and was postponed for later reconsideration.
At the WG meeting of November 2005 in Toronto, the WG concluded that after months of off and on discussion of this idea, we were not going to reach consensus on a proposal to provide a notion of nested scopes along the lines proposed here. We agreed, therefore, to close this issue with a disposition of LATER. (That is, this is a non-goal for XML Schema 1.1, although the WG thinks it may be a good idea in and of itself and may be worth considering for some future version of the language.) This entry should have been updated last November but was not; I update it now following the motto "better late than never".