- From: Box, Don <dbox@develop.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:16:01 -0800
- To: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@mitre.org>, www-xml-schema-comments@w3c.org, xml-dev@xml.org
- Cc: "Schneider,John C." <jcs@mitre.org>, "Cokus,Michael S." <msc@mitre.org>, "Wang,David" <dwang@mitre.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: Roger L. Costello [mailto:costello@mitre.org] > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:00 PM > To: www-xml-schema-comments@w3c.org; xml-dev@xml.org > Cc: costello@mitre.org; Schneider,John C.; Cokus,Michael S.; > Wang,David > Subject: XML Schemas: lost "open content models"? > > > Hi Folks, > > In an earlier incarnation of the XML Schema spec it allowed > you to state > that the content of an element is "open". > > My question is: What happened to it? Is it there in the > current spec, > but under a different guise? Or, if it's not there, is it > coming back in > the next version of the spec? Look at element and attribute wildcards (<any/> and <anyAttribute/> respectively). They subsume the functionality of the old model=open/closed attribute. Both of these are described in Part 1 of the Dec 17 PWD (section 3.5). Had your "Book" type been defined as follows: > <element name="Book"> > <type> > <element name="Title" type="string"/> > <element name="Author" type="string"/> > <element name="Date" type="string"/> > <element name="ISBN" type="string"/> > <element name="Publisher" type="string"/> > <any minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='*'/> > </type> > </element> You would have been fine. DB http://www.develop.com/dbox
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