- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 05 Mar 2001 16:29:22 +0000
- To: mhuffman@ca.ibm.com
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
mhuffman@ca.ibm.com writes:
> The XML Schema Structures spec has a constraint on <element>s whose parent
> is not <schema> which reads:
>
> If ref is present, then all of <complexType>, <simpleType>, <key>,
> <keyref>, <unique>, nullable(nillable), default, fixed, block and
> type must be absent, i.e. only minOccurs, maxOccurs, id are allowed
> in addition to ref, along with <annotation>.
>
> This is in "Schema Representation Constraint: Element Declaration
> Representation OK" (CR spec section 4.3.2 ... Current (Feb 10/2001) spec
> section 3.3.3). This constraint omits the 4 other attributes of <element>
> - abstract, final, form, and substitutionGroup.
>
> My assumption is that these 4 attributes also "must be absent" if ref is
> present, otherwise the schema would be in error.
That those attributes are forbidden is enforced by the schema for
schemas. The explicit representation constraints in the relevant
(sub-)sections are all introduced as being _in addition_ to the
constraints in the SforS.
ht
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