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The Structures spec needs to be checked to ensure that its use of the term 'derived' agrees with that of Datatypes. The Datatypes part of this requirement was dealt with and wording approved 25 March 2005. This Bugzilla report is to allow us to track the other half, relating to Structures.
Ready for WG inspection
A wording proposal to address this issue was considered by the Working Group in Edinburgh in September 2005 and approved as amended. Further amendments were made on 16 December 2005. The proposal as amended has been incorporated into the status quo documents as of 16 December 2005.
The wording proposal adopted to resolve this issue appears to have linked many occurrences of the string 'derived' to the definition in the Datatypes spec, possibly all of them, but certainly more of them than are in fact referring to the concept of type derivation as defined there. All occurrences of the string need to be reviewed and selectively unlinked from Datatypes (and possibly relinked to some more appropriate target within the Structures spec).
During its 2009-03-20 telecon, the schema WG adopted a proposal to address this issue. The proposal can be found at (member-only): http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/xmlschema-1/structures.b1913.html Changes include: 1. New definitions for "derived" and "constructed" are introduced in structures spec. 2. Updated occurrences of "derived" and "constructed" that link to part 2 to point to these new definitions. With these changes, the WG believes that the issue raised in this bug report is fully addressed. I'm marking this RESOLVED accordingly. Michael, as the persons who opened and reopened this issue, if you would indicate your concurrence with or dissent from the WG's disposition of the comment by closing or reopening the issue, we'll be grateful. If we don't hear from you in the next two weeks, we'll assume that silence implies consent.