Re: Who tests UPA?

Hi Xan,

 > I hadn't noticed it and neither did any validator I tried.

Xerces checks the UPA. In this case I guess you run into a Xerces bug. I 
traced the sample down to

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema targetNamespace="http://www.example.com/test"
     xmlns="http://www.example.com/test"
     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

     <xs:element name="root">
         <xs:complexType>
             <xs:sequence>
                 <xs:element ref="Study" minOccurs="0" 
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                 <xs:any namespace="##any" minOccurs="0" 
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
             </xs:sequence>
         </xs:complexType>
     </xs:element>

     <xs:element name="Study"/>

     <xs:element name="test">
         <xs:complexType>
             <xs:sequence>
                 <xs:any namespace="##other"/>
             </xs:sequence>
         </xs:complexType>
     </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

which is reported as valid BUT if the test element is removed or placed 
before the root element Xerces reports:

SystemID: F:\test\test.xsd
Location: 7:25
Description: E cos-nonambig: "http://www.example.com/test":Study and 
WC[##any] (or elements from their substitution group) violate "Unique 
Particle Attribution". During validation against this schema, ambiguity 
would be created for those two particles.
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#cos-nonambig

The problem seems to be related with ##other because if ##any is 
specified instead the error is reported.

If you move the ODM element declaration from ODM1-2-0.xsd schema at the 
end of the schema file then Xerces will report:

SystemID: http://www.cdisc.org/schema/ODM1-2-0.xsd
Location: 1431:21
Description: E cos-nonambig: 
"http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#":Signature and 
WC[##other:"http://www.cdisc.org/ns/odm/v1.2"] (or elements from their 
substitution group) violate "Unique Particle Attribution". During 
validation against this schema, ambiguity would be created for those two 
particles.
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#cos-nonambig

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
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Received on Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:04:18 UTC