Stephen,
> How does one base BIEs on CCs or candidate CCs if you need a
> harmonization and approval process with them to create the
> CCs? This seems an impossibility to me.
> Should we:
> 1. first create BIEs then use them to design CCs on which
> they can be based or
> 2. first create the CCs then derive the BIEs from the CCs?
2. You may want to look at Section 5 of CCTS which has some very nice flow charts that explains all of this.
> Secondly, do the CCs ever need to be expressed as CCs in the schemas?
No - although Garret M. of Oracle is playing around with this concept.
> If not then we have to derive BIEs from them in the model
> only and not use XSD derivation to base BIEs on CCs in the schemas.
Correct
> If we do have CCs as CCs in the schemas, should we use XSD
> derivation to derive the BIEs from them?
No. See immediately preceding comment.
mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Mark
