Hi Steve,

I think your implementation is correct (not the test). In the specification, the inheritance of elements algorithm (7.2.2.1) states:

7.2.2.1 Inheritance of Elements
    Inheritance of elements from a node n’ to a node n is defined as follows:
        1 Let N an empty node list.
        2 For each child element e’ of n’ from the first element to the last element:
            2.1 If the node n has child elements E = {e1, e2,…} that have the same name as e’
                2.1.1 If N does not contain an element that has the same name as e’:
                    2.1.1.1 For each element ei in E in the document order, append ei to the end
                                of N. Inherit attributes from e’ to ei.
            2.2 Otherwise, append e’ to the end of N.
        3 For each child element e of the node n from the first element to the last element:
            3.1 if the element e’ does not have a child element that has the same name as e,
                    append e to the end of N.
        4 Replace n’s children with the nodes in N.

And your code, based on what you said on the e-mail, does what was underlined above.

Guilherme

Steve Loughran wrote:

Sourceforge is back up, but you need to check out everything again in a new directory tree.

Incidenally I just found a little thing my CDL impl. can't resolve

        <cdl:cdl>
          <cdl:configuration>

            <component>
              <entry cdl:ref="todo"/>
            </component>

            <c2 cdl:extends="component">
              <entry>something</entry>
            </c2>

          </cdl:configuration>
          <cdl:system>
            <example cdl:extends="c2" />
          </cdl:system>
        </cdl:cdl>

This fails on my impl, with the entry being undefined.

            <example xmlns="">
              <entry cdl:ref="todo">something</entry>
            </example>

I'm clearly not scrubbing cdl:ref stuff when I extend an element, when in reality I should strip that and cdl:refroot.

This is now a new test: /org/ggf/cddlm/files/cdl/valid/set_02_references/cddlm-cdl-2005-02-0023.xml

Its interesting to see that I can still find problems in my code while writing more CDL files. If anyone has more example CDL Files, especially those that work on their system, please add them as CDL tests just to give us as broad a set of
tests as possible.

-Steve