Hi Lars,
It's a bug in xmllint. The restriction you mention must be applied
after simplification; in the simplified form the values are substituted
into the list, and there are no references.
The restriction basically means that elements cannot be inside
lists.
David
>
> Only the fact, that xmllint reported "element ref: Relax-NG parser
> error: Found forbidden pattern list//ref" made us aware of the fact,
> that relax-ng in fact constraints the use of refs in lists.
> (http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/ch17s02.html#id2877724)
