Re: Defaulted values and identity_constraint checking

Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com writes:

> Just want to confirm: my reading of [1] is that defaulted attribute and
> element values do not participate in identity_constraint checking.  As far
> as I can tell, identity constraint checking operates on the unaugmented
> infoset, right?
> 
> [1]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Identity-constraint_Definition_details

Sigh.  This is underspecified in the current spec., so I guess people
could read it either way.  I'm not terribly happy with either reading, 
myself.

ht
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