2.24 Inheritance

The Inheritance element specifies how an entity inherits from another entity. It specifies both the other entity and a relation that represents this inheritance.

The following are the parent and child elements of the Inheritance element.

Parent elements

Entity

Child elements

Inheritance.InheritsFromEntityID

Inheritance.Relation

The following is the XML Schema definition of the Inheritance element.          

 <xsd:element name="Inheritance" minOccurs="0">
   <xsd:complexType>
     <xsd:all>
       <xsd:element name="InheritsFromEntityID" type="xsd:QName" />
       <xsd:element name="Relation" type="RelationType" minOccurs="0" />
     </xsd:all>
   </xsd:complexType>
 </xsd:element>