- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 07 Feb 2001 10:01:01 +0000
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: XML Schema Comments <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
One feature, one bug :-(
James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> writes:
> I was trying to figure out what
>
> <anyAttribute namespace="##other"/>
>
> means. Suppose my target namespace is "http://www.example.com", and
> suppose I have an element "foo" in that namespace which declares
> <anyAttribute namespace="##other"/>.
>
> My reading of the spec was that:
>
> <eg:foo eg:xyzzy="whatever" xmlns:eg="http://www.example.com"/>
>
> would not be valid, but
Correct -- ##other means "qualified with NS other than the target . . ."
and this is qualified with the target, so invalid.
> <eg:foo xyzzy="whatever"/>
>
> would be valid, which is not what I would expect
Agreed wrt you expectation. We could/should special-case this wrt
attribute wildcards.
> (and apparently not what XSV implements). So I guess I'm missing
> something in the spec.
No, just a bug in XSV :-( Weird -- the code explicitly special-cases
this for attributes, just as I said we could do above -- let me check
the spec. a little harder . . . no, definitely nothing there. When I
wrote that bit of the code, I clearly thought you were right. I'll
raise this with the WG.
ht
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