RE: Restricting Wildcards

So you are saying there isn't any explicit wording in the spec that
makes it valid but our implementers should have assumed that the
intention of the spec was for it to be valid? 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:14 AM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org; www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
> 
> "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com> writes:
> 
> > Is the following restriction valid: 
> > 
> > BASE: 
> > <xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"> 
> >   <xs:any namespace="##any" processContents="skip" minOccurs="1" 
> > maxOccurs="unbounded"/> </xs:sequence>
> > 
> > 
> > DERIVED: 
> >      <xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"> 
> >            <xs:element name="A" minOccurs="1" 
> maxOccurs="unbounded" /> 
> >            <xs:element name="B" minOccurs="1" 
> maxOccurs="unbounded" /> 
> >      </xs:sequence>
> > 
> > 2 There is a complete *order-preserving* functional mapping 
> from the particles in the {particles} of R to the particles 
> in the {particles} of B such that all of the following must be true: 
> 
> > [Definition:]  A complete functional mapping is 
> order-preserving if each particle r in the domain R maps to a 
> particle b in the range B which follows (not necessarily 
> immediately) the particle in the range B mapped to by the 
> predecessor of r, if any, where "predecessor" and "follows" 
> are defined with respect to the order of the lists which 
> constitute R and B. " 
> 
> Yup, that looks like a bug to me.  A similar problem would 
> arise with substitution groups, which are also an implicit 
> disjunction, were it not for the explicit statement that they 
> are treated _as_ a disjunction for checking restriction.  We 
> should have said something similar for wildcards.
> 
> I say 'bug' because I think it's clear the _intention_ was 
> that this should be valid -- certainly the set of valid 
> instances of the 'derived' type def. is a (proper) subset of 
> the set of valid instances of the base type def.
> 
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