- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Sep 2002 11:51:34 +0100
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> writes:
> Hi Noah,
>
> > Dumb question: if you really want the version with "skip", how do
> > you get it? Thanks.
>
> Was that question addressed to me? If I understood what Henry was
> saying correctly, there'd be two types, xs:anyType (with 'skip'
> validation) and xs:defaultType [made up name] (with 'lax' validation).
To minimize backward incompatibility, actually the proposal is to have
xs:urType, with processContents='skip'
xs:anyType, with processContents='lax' (as now)
> If you wanted 'skip' validation for the content of a particular
> element, you'd do:
> <xs:element name="foo" type="xs:anyType" />
<xs:element name="foo" type="xs:urType" />
> If you wanted 'lax' validation for the content of that element you'd
> do:
>
> <xs:element name="foo" type="xs:defaultType" />
<xs:element name="foo" type="xs:anyType" />
> or just:
>
> <xs:element name="foo" />
Yes.
> But I might have misunderstood; this might not be what Henry had in
> mind.
All but the names.
ht
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