[Bug 4977] Schematron queryBinding attribute

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4977

           Summary: Schematron queryBinding attribute
           Product: SML
           Version: FPWD
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.schematron.com/spec.html
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: virginia.smith@hp.com
        ReportedBy: virginia.smith@hp.com
         QAContact: public-sml@w3.org


According to section 4.2.1 the queryBinding attribute is required to be "xpath
1.0" if specified. The Schematron spec states that the default queryBinding is
"xslt" when none is specified. (A value of "xpath 1.0" is not defined in the
spec at all.)

1 - Why should we restrict the queryBinding in SML? Perhaps we should specify
it in SML-IF but is there a good reason to restrict it in SML?

2 - If we do restrict the queryBinding, it should be the default of "xslt".
Other values are mentioned in the spec but are intentionally undefined.
However, we can assume a value of "xpath" would eliminate xslt functions in
xpath expressions.

-------from Schematron spec--------

...The optional queryBinding attribute provides the short name of the query
language binding in use. If this attribute is specified, it is an error if it
has a value that the current implementation does not support....

...The following query language names are reserved without further definition.
Implementations which use different query language bindings are encouraged to
use one of these names if appropriate : stx, xslt, xslt1.1, exslt, xslt2,
xpath, xpath2, xquery....

Also see Appendix C in spec:  A Schematron schema with no language binding or a
queryBinding attribute with the value xslt, in any mix of
upper and lower case letters, shall use the following binding: ...

Received on Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:04:13 UTC