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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">DEFs names within a context need to be
unique (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/concepts.html#DEFL_USESemantics">https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/concepts.html#DEFL_USESemantics</a>).
The same DEF value may appear multiple times in a single XML file
as long as each occurrence is in a different context. See link for
a description of different contexts.<br>
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<div dir="auto">Here’s my understanding of DEFed nodes. DEF
creates one more parent node similar to USE, but another DEF
with same value allows update or addition of fields of the
multiply mentioned node, where USE does not.</div>
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<div dir="auto">DEF nodes with the same DEF value may appear more
than once in XML.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Okay?</div>
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<font size="+1"><b>Leonard Daly</b></font><br>
3D Systems & Cloud Consultant<br>
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Past Chair<br>
President, Daly Realism - <i>Creating the Future</i>
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