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RE: [XML Schema 1.1] I need an example that illustrates the usefulness of xs:error

From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:01:27 +0100
To: "'Costello, Roger L.'" <costello@mitre.org>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <D5A0190B0D404A62BCE5B72577810DD2@Sealion>
> Doesn't this achieve the same result (I simply omitted the 
> third alternative):
> 
>    <element name="template">
>      <alternative test="@name" type="xslt:named-template"/>
>      <alternative test="@match" type="xslt:template"/>
>    </element>
> 

I think the default if none of the alternatives match is not xs:error, it is
the "declared type" of the element, which in this case is xs:anyType.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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Received on Wednesday, 22 July 2009 19:02:07 GMT

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