R-117: pfianyTypeLax: Problem with processContents for the ur-type

Hi,

In the summary of the comments on the Recommendation, issue R-117 [1]
says:

Description

  The REC does not specify what {process contents} is for the ur-type.
  It should be specified as lax.

  See:
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2002JanMar/0519.html


Discussion

  Discussed at the May f2f. The WG discussed the possibility of making
  processContents "skip". Henry Thompson to work on a proposal.

I don't know what stage you've got to with this, but I'm confused by
the fact that in the description it says that the processContents
should be 'lax' whereas in the discussion it says it should be 'skip'.

I think it would be much more useful it it were 'lax'. This would
enable people to write schemas that focused on a few elements or
attributes and validate source documents with those schemas. For
example, it would be great to be able to validate a document against
an XLink schema without necessarily having to have a schema for the
entire document. With 'skip', any unrecognised element would mean that
whole chunks of the document would be ignored.

Cheers,

Jeni

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/05/xmlschema-rec-comments#pfianyTypeLax

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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/

Received on Sunday, 15 September 2002 04:33:34 UTC