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This issue was originally reported by Asir Vedamuthu, Mary Holstege. No intrinsic ordering or other distinguishable property for annotations. Where annotations are promoted or otherwise coalesced from multiple elements, there is no means to distinguish them, and therefore reference them with a SCD. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2002Oct/0222.html See also http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xmlschema-ref-20030109/#issue_annotation_predicate This item was classified as Req in the meeting of 2004-03-11 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2004Mar/0026.html). This item was discussed, and phase-1 agreement was reached, in the meeting of 2004-03-26 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2004Mar/0169.html). Proposal: Henry Thompson, proposing a resolution for RQ-14, RQ-19, RQ-130 and RQ-131. (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003May/0121.html) According to the requirements document, phase-1 agreement has been reached.
A proposal to resolve this issue has been placed at http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/xmlschema-1/structures.bannotations.200610.html (member-only links) for review and action by the WG.
The proposal mentioned in comment #1 was accepted by the WG during its meeting of 20 October 2006. The changes have been integrated into the status quo document and will appear in due course in the next published working draft.