RE: xml11Names-46

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jonathan@openhealth.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:33 AM
> To: Norman Walsh
> Cc: www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: Re: xml11Names-46
> 
> Validation, like other conformance tests, needs to be binary.

Well, then I guess you don't use schema to its full potential...since schema allows for partial validation.  In schema, valdiation is NOT binary.  See, for example, the [validation attempted] PSVI property [1], whose possible values are "full, partial or none" and the [validity] PSVI property [2] whose possible values are "valid, invalid or notKnown".  Thus the validation outcome for any element/attribute is a 3x3 matrix...not a boolean.

pvb

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#e-validation_attempted
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#e-validity