[Bug 9922] xs:ID element as outermost element in document

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9922

Sandy Gao <sandygao@ca.ibm.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Sandy Gao <sandygao@ca.ibm.com> 2010-10-29 02:52:42 UTC ---
Consider a schema:

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xs:element name="X">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:simpleContent>
        <xs:extension base="xs:id">
          <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:id" use="optional"/>
        </xs:extension>
      </xs:simpleContent>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

And 2 instances:

I1: <X>abcd</X>
I2: <X id="abcd">abcd</X>

It seems that I1 is invalid (an ID/IDREF binding without a [binding]) but I2 is
valid (because of the "id" attribute). Does anyone find this counter-intuitive?

I would think either "top-level ID element is bad", then both I1 and I2 are
invalid, or "top-level ID element is ignored", then both are valid.

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Received on Friday, 29 October 2010 02:52:44 UTC