[Mono-list] XmlDocument.cs

[A Rafael D Teixeira]

I think mcs is mishandling the modifiers in this case. See this excerpt from 
the C# Language Specification.

The declared accessibility of a member can be one of the following:
...
    * Protected internal (meaning protected or internal), which is selected 
by including both a protected and an internal modifier in the member 
declaration. The intuitive meaning of protected internal is “access limited 
to this program or types derived from the containing class”.
...

To be clearer, the last phrase may be complemented with: ', even if that 
derived class does not live in the same assembly.'

The key concept here is that when using both modifiers we have an 'or' 
relationship not an 'and' relationship. I disagree with that text's writer 
about it being the 'intuitive meaning'...

Happy Hackings,

Rafael Teixeira
Brazilian Polymath



>From: ville <vi64pa@koti.soon.fi>
>To: "mono-list" <mono-list@ximian.com>
>Subject: [Mono-list] XmlDocument.cs
>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:11:52 +0200
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>Hi
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>There must be some error in msdn becouse XmlDocument class contains:
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>protected internal virtual XPathNavigator CreateNavigator(XmlNode);
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>And XmlDataDocument class which is derived from XmlDocument contains
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>protected override XPathNavigator CreateNavigator(XmlNode);
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>So when trying to compile this:
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>System.Xml/XmlDataDocument.cs(276) error CS0507:
>`System.Xml.XmlDataDocument.CreateNavigator': can't change the access
>modifiers when overriding inherited member `XmlDocument.CreateNavigator'
>Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
>
>So should it be internal or just protected?
>
>ville
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