- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 2002 19:23:03 +0000
- To: sandygao@ca.ibm.com
- Cc: w3c-xml-schema-ig@w3.org, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
sandygao@ca.ibm.com writes:
> Maybe I'm misreading the spec, but it's not clear from the spec what to do
> in this case. Bullet 5.2.2.2 of constraint [1] deals with default element
> value. 5.2.2.2.1 talks about complex type with mixed content, and 5.2.2.2.2
> talks about complex type with simple type content. So there is no rule for
> elements with simple types.
>
> Maybe 5.2.2.2.2 should be changed to say if the actual type is a simple
> type or if it's a complex type with simple type content?
Yes, I think that's right.
> Another related issue, which I think was raised before, is that 5.2.2.2.2
> talks about the actual value must match the canonical representation of the
> value constraint. Shouldn't it be the actual value must match the value
> constraint value?
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#cvc-elt
Yes, there's a pending issue [1] on that one.
ht
[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/05/xmlschema-rec-comments.html#pfifixedValueConstraint
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