complex types with element properties

[mbeckerle]

Created from action 343 in the workgroup call agenda/minutes.

342	complex types with element properties
2024-06-13	Action created to consider this improvement to the DFDL language. This was in reaction to recent email threads on XSD Element References which are the only way to reuse complex elements with their DFDL properties currently. A way to do this that reuses the complex type is desirable. By keeping the properties on the complex type distinct from those of the model group of that type perhaps the previously feared drawbacks of properties on complex types can be avoided. Worth consideration for DFDL 2.0.
2024-09-12	No progress reported.
2024-10-10	No progress reported.
2024-11-14	No progress reported.
2025-01-09	No progress reported.

[mbeckerle]

To clarify this: An element reference, element declaration, and complex type definition would have their DFDL properties combined using the same rules about non-overlap and scoping as for an element reference, element declaration, and a simple type definition, with the exception that DFDL does not allow complex type derivation.

In all cases these properties are those of the element itself and not the complex type's model group.