- From: Savas Parastatidis <Savas.Parastatidis@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:52:29 +0100
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>, "Jim Webber" <jim.webber@arjuna.com>, "Paul Watson" <Paul.Watson@newcastle.ac.uk>
> > <xs:complexType name="myType">
> > <xs:complexContent>
> > <xs:restriction base="xs:element">
> > ...
> > </xs:restriction>
> > </xs:complexContent>
> > </xs:complexType>
> >
> > With xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>
> There's nothing I'm aware of in the REC to stop you doing this.
>
> There is a type definition with that name in the schema for schemas.
> Like any other type definition that doesn't include
> final='restriction', you can derive new type definitions from it by
> restriction.
>
Please see bellow why I think why you can't do that.
> Purists would probably argue you should include
>
> <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
>
I believe that this is not necessary. When you define an XML Schema, the
above namespace is assumed to be already imported. I may be wrong in
this but including the above line in XmlSpy and VS.NET 2003 does not
help in validating the XML Schema I posted in my previous message.
>
> What made you think this wasn't allowed? I didn't understand your
> comment "since the XML Schema specification is defined as an infoset,
> the XML Schema <element> element that is defined in the normative XML
> Schema schema (I hope this makes sense) should not be used in the
> above manner".
>
Here's why I believe that "xs:element" cannot be used as base in an XML
Schema declaration.
The XML Schema infoset defines a tree of information items with the
{namespace} property for all of them set to
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" (section 3.1.2).
So, when one uses
<xs:restriction base="xs:element">
What should a tool do? Should it refer to the "element" complex type
defined in http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema by the normative XML Schema
or should it refer to the more general, representation-independent XML
Schema information item defined by the XML Schema infoset in the same
namespace?
The two tools I tried seem to agree with me although I don't know
whether this because of a bad implementation of the XML Schema standard.
Regards,
.savas.
Received on Wednesday, 2 July 2003 13:58:29 UTC