Possible to separate globality from validation's top-level element choice?

• From: Melvin Chin <mc@SoftOffice.Net>
• Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:29:49 +0000
• To: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
• Message-Id: <E7EAA2D3-7F43-4A29-BBCC-5C169F83E497@SoftOffice.Net>

Hi,

I'm new to the list so pardon me if the above has been a
discussed topic.

Are there plans to separate the globality of an element
from its current automatic candidacy as a choice to be
validated as a data instance top-level element?

Just as an example, perhaps the introduction of something
like <xsd:validate name="TopDoc"/> to explicitly declare
that "TopDoc" is the one and only permissible top-level
document name of its defining schema would help very much
to separate the element's degree of referenceability from
being valid or invalid in a data instance.

There appears to be increasing practical needs to have
this distinction than a mere nice-to-have.

Please see if you could consider, or point me to any
area that has concluded this if there were previous
discussions.

Thanks.

cheers,
mc

Received on Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:25:16 UTC