Re: Implementation Experience: INCORRECT usage of xsi:type in Union Types

"Asir S Vedamuthu" <asirv@webmethods.com> writes:

> <xsd:element name='size'>
>   <xsd:simpleType>
>     <xsd:union memberTypes='xsd:integer xsd:string'>
> 	<xsd:pattern value='1'/>
> 	<xsd:pattern value='(1|2)'/>
> 	<xsd:pattern value='(small|medium|large)'/>
>     </xsd:union>
>   </xsd:simpleType>
> </xsd:element>
> 
> <size xsi:type='xsd:string'>small</size>
> NOTE - there are several frustrating errors in prose that keeps me circling
> thru the drafts. Asir, this is NORMAL 'cos of the last minute additions and
> substrations. Of them, here is one. Part 2 - Section 2.5.1.3 does not say
> that Union Datatype Def can use pattern and enumeration facets. Section 4.1
> says that you can use two facets: pattern and enumeration. Production rule
> in section 5.1.3 does not allow pattern or enumeration as immediate children
> of xsd:union.

These are all correct, and _not_ mutually inconsistent.  The above
example is invalid.  You must say:

<xsd:element name='size'>
 <xsd:simpleType>
  <xsd:restriction>
   <xsd:simpleType>
     <xsd:union memberTypes='xsd:integer xsd:string'/>
   </xsd:simpleType>
   <xsd:pattern value='1'/>
   <xsd:pattern value='(1|2)'/>
   <xsd:pattern value='(small|medium|large)'/>
  </xsd:restriction>
 </xsd:simpleType>
</xsd:element>

ht
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