- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 09 Feb 2001 13:35:20 +0000
- To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
- Cc: Eddie Robertsson <eddie@allette.com.au>, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Rick Jelliffe <ricko@gate.sinica.edu.tw> writes:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Eddie Robertsson wrote:
>
> > Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> >
> > > The current CR does not allow direct fixing of attribute values of
> > > attributes from foreign namespaces. At the moment, the easiest workaround
> > > seems to be to simply redefine them with fixed values. There may be some
> > > more information on this in the next few days.
> >
> > How does this work?
>
> Sorry, checked again and it probably doesn't. That means the only current
> workaround I know about would seem to be to define a schema for the
> foreign namespace yourself, with one complex type per every attribute
> group of restrictions. These complex types restrict the values from the
> real declarations for the attributes. So you cannot attach a fixed
> attribute in a foreign namespace to an existing comlpex type, you have to
> make up a new complex type.
Fortunately the WG voted yesterday to add a facility for 'fixing' the
value of an imported attribute, but you'll have to wait for the next
Public WD to use it.
ht
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