- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:04:02 -0000
- To: "'George Cristian Bina'" <george@oxygenxml.com>, <d_a_carver@yahoo.com>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> oXygen reports the error with a link to the specification > related with that: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#cos-nonambig A tangential remark: I wonder how useful this is? I know Appendix C says that validity errors "should" be reported citing the chapter and verse of the spec, but is there really any serious prospect that the average schema author will get any value from this? Your link points to the sentence: "A content model must be formed such that during .validation. of an element information item sequence, the particle component contained directly, indirectly or .implicitly. therein with which to attempt to .validate. each item in the sequence in turn can be uniquely determined without examining the content or attributes of that item, and without any information about the items in the remainder of the sequence." I suspect most users can't even parse the syntax of this sentence, let alone understand what it means. I decided in Saxon that there wasn't any point in referring people to the spec, and instead try to explain what's wrong in my own words. In this case you will get a message to the effect: "the content model is ambiguous, <elementname> appears in more than one place". Any views on this from users? Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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