RE: About those "non-deterministic content model" errors

I do not understand the "co-constraint" between your policy regarding
extensions and your use of any.  What is a "private extension".  Can you
give a pointer to the JDF spec to explain these things?  I can't tell if
what you're trying to do is "reasonable" until I can understand the goal.

Thanks,

Matthew Fuchs

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slein, Judith A [mailto:JSlein@crt.xerox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:34 AM
> To: 'www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org'
> Subject: FW: About those "non-deterministic content model" errors
> 
> 
> When I sent this note to Henry Thompson, he suggested that I 
> send a comment
> to the XML Schema working group.  So here is the example I 
> sent him, and his
> response:
> 
> <HT>I think I understand the design goal and agree it's 
> reasonable.  The
> problem is not with XSV, but with the XML Schema spec. itself.  Given
> the example, the relevant element in the instance could be
> accepted by either branch of the <choice>, and that's not allowed.
> 
> Please send this example to www-xml-schema-comments and 
> prefix it with 
> the observation that without a version of 'any' which explicitly does 
> _not_ validate anything which would cause a violation of the unique
> attribution restriction you can't do what you (quite reasonably) want
> to do.</HT>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slein, Judith A 
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 9:47 AM
> To: 'ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk'
> Subject: About those "non-deterministic content model" errors
> 
> 
> These errors have been causing me no end of headaches, and it 
> seems to me
> XSV should be able to figure out what to do.
> 
> I'm in the situation of having to implement the JDF spec, 
> which is being
> developed by a printing industry consortium.  The JDF spec 
> does not include
> an XML Schema yet, but it seems relatively easy to figure out 
> from their
> models what the schema will look like, so I've taken a stab a 
> writing one.
> The spec forbids the use of derived types for extensions 
> except in the case
> of "private extensions".  So I'm assuming they will put "any" and
> "anyAttribute" at all the extension points.  However, we 
> would like to use
> derived types in spite of their prohibition, and just say that we are
> defining private extensions.  So you get definitions like:
> 
> <element name="ResourcePool" type="jdf:ResourcePool"/>
> <complexType name="ResourcePool">
>    <complexContent>
>       <extension base="jdf:GenericContent">
>          <choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
>             <element ref="jdf:Resource"/>
> <!-- Extension resources are allowed.  They must have the structure of
>      JDF resources, but JDF doesn't allow the use of derived types
>      to define them.  We will use derived types anyhow, but 
> to be prepared
>      for non-derived resources from 3rd parties . . . -->
>             <any namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>
>          </choice>
>       </extension>
>    </complexContent>
> </complexType>
> 
> Then we define in our namespace new types derived from 
> Resource.  Using our
> derived types in an instance document then causes the 
> "non-deterministic
> content model" schema error.  But since we declare the 
> substitutionGroup of
> our elements to be "jdf:Resource", it seems to me that a 
> schema validator
> should try to use the more restrictive validation path.  That 
> is, it could
> have a rule that says, if you can validate this without 
> resorting to "any",
> do so. Otherwise, use "any".
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> --Judy
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk [mailto:ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 4:51 PM
> To: Slein, Judith A
> Cc: 'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'
> Subject: Re: False "undefined type" error from XSV
> 
> 
> Can't reproduce with the current version, sorry.  Try upgrading to
> XSV11.EXE, and try again.
> 
> Here are the error messages I get from the current version:
> 
> <schemaError char='55' line='371' phase='instance'
> resource='file:///projects/lt
> g/users/ht/xml/xmlschema/monk/slein/JDF.xsd'>non-deterministic
>  content 
> model for
>  type ResourcePool: {Wildcard:
> ##other}/{http://www.xerox.com/xmlschemas/DigiFin
> ish}:BindingIntent</schemaError>
> <schemaWarning char='31' line='99' phase='instance'
> resource='file:///projects/l
> tg/users/ht/xml/xmlschema/monk/slein/JDF.xsd'>restricting a list with
> facets not
>  implemented yet</schemaWarning>
> <schemaWarning char='31' line='99' phase='instance'
> resource='file:///projects/l
> tg/users/ht/xml/xmlschema/monk/slein/JDF.xsd'>restricting a list with
> facets not
>  implemented yet</schemaWarning>
> <schemaWarning char='31' line='99' phase='instance'
> resource='file:///projects/l
> tg/users/ht/xml/xmlschema/monk/slein/JDF.xsd'>restricting a list with
> facets not
>  implemented yet</schemaWarning>
> <schemaError char='63' line='532' phase='instance'
> resource='file:///projects/lt
> g/users/ht/xml/xmlschema/monk/slein/JDF.xsd'>non-deterministic
>  content 
> model for
>  type ResourceLinkPool: {Wildcard:
> ##other}/{http://www.xerox.com/xmlschemas/Dig
> iFinish}:VerificationIntentLink</schemaError>
> 
> ht
> -- 
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> University of Edinburgh
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