[Note, questions which are strictly about the spec. should be directed to www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org] "Falk, Alexander" <falk@icon.at> writes: > Interesting question... > > I've looked at both the primer and the (normative) schema for schemas and DTD > for schemas. The first seems to indicate that 'xsd:list' should be used, but > the normative meta-schema and DTD clearly say that it should be 'list' all by > itself. > > Maybe someone else can shed some authoritative light on this: if the > schema-namespace is defined with prefix xsd, and we have the following > simpleType definition > > <xsd:simpleType base="PermissionType" derivedBy="?????"/> > > should the derivedBy be 'list' (like the meta-schema and DTD say), or should > it be 'xsd:list' (like the primer says)? My opinion is that the primer is the mistaken one here. The 'derivedBy' attribute has an enumerated type, with values 'extension', 'list' and 'restriction'. It's not a reference, which would have type QName. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/Received on Tuesday, 2 May 2000 04:10:56 GMT
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