untestable assertions

• From: <paul.downey@bt.com>
• Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:38:43 -0000
• To: <public-xsd-databinding@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <2A7793353757DB4392DF4DFBBC9522550A20176D@I2KM11-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>

In our document text, we have a number of assertions which aren't readily expressible as an XPath expression. Jon's latest constraint to disallow cyclic references being one, requiring UTF-8/UTF-16 being another.

Something we could consider is adding assertions as placeholders to our pattern detector, as suggested by Rick, here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/expressing_untested_and_untest.html

Paul

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