RE: [XSV and XML Spy] mixed="true" and <simpleContent/>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Asir S Vedamuthu [mailto:asirv@webmethods.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 5:09 AM
> To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: [XSV and XML Spy] mixed="true" and <simpleContent/>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> <xsd:complexType name="a" mixed="true">
>   <xsd:simpleContent>
>    <xsd:extension base="xsd:string"/>
>   </xsd:simpleContent>
> </xsd:complexType>
> 
> This fragment is a complex type with simple and mixed 
> content. I do not believe that this combination is valid. 
> However, XSV and XML Spy say that it is valid. Did anyone 
> else bump into this?
> 

What part of the W3C XML Schema recommendation do you think makes this
invalid? I looked at section 3.4 of the Structures document[0] and
couldn't find any place where having a mixed attribute with the value of
true and a complexType with simpleContent is disallowed.

Furthermore the rules for determining the {content type} of the
complexType are fairly unambiguous. The simpleType derivation takes
precedence over the mixed attribute (which in fact is ignored and not
factored in at all in determining the content type).   

[0]  http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Complex_Type_Definitions

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