Re: XML Schemas patterns (was: Re: Defining recursive elements?)

----- Original Message From: "Michael Kay" <...>

> Also of course there is the terrible danger of writing
>
> <xs:element name="z">
>  <xs:complexType>
>   <xs:sequence>
>     <xs:element name="e"/>
>   </xs:sequence>
>  </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
>
> ...
>
> an error whose only effect is that invalid documents are not detected as
> such.

I think you're saying that if a local element was only allowed to use the 
ref attribute (rather than name and type), things would be better.

Personally, I think a better fix to this problem would be to not allow 
default types.  So if a name was present, then either a type attribute 
must be present or (less preferably) a local type definition.

Pete.
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