RE: untestable assertions

Hi Paul!

I should reassure you that the assertions are all testable,
just not all expressible in XPath:

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/basic/basic.html#assertionsummary

testing for a pattern where element A has an element B of ComplexType C which references A isn't easy in XPath, even when they're in the same schema document ..

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Fremantle [mailto:paul@wso2.com]
Sent: Tue 3/20/2007 1:45 PM
To: Downey,P,Paul,XSL3 R
Cc: public-xsd-databinding@w3.org
Subject: Re: untestable assertions
 
I'm significantly concerned at the philosophical implications of 
untestable assertions. I suggest we need to address the 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability of the whole realm :-)

Paul

paul.downey@bt.com wrote:
> 
> In our document text, we have a number of assertions which aren't readily expressible as an XPath expression. Jon's latest constraint to disallow cyclic references being one, requiring UTF-8/UTF-16 being another.
> 
> Something we could consider is adding assertions as placeholders to our pattern detector, as suggested by Rick, here:
> 
> http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/expressing_untested_and_untest.html
> 
> Paul
> 
> 

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