[Bug 3573] Validation and invalid schemas

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3573


cmsmcq@w3.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
           Keywords|needsAgreement              |resolved
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




------- Comment #4 from cmsmcq@w3.org  2006-09-23 03:24 -------
The XML Schema WG discussed this issue at its call today, 22 September 2006,
and ended by adopting the following wording for the passage in
question:

     With respect to the processes of the checking of schema structure
     and the construction of schemas corresponding to schema
     documents, this specification imposes no restrictions on
     processors in the presence of errors. However, any operations
     performed in the presence of errors are outside the scope of this
     specification and are not schema-validity assessment as that term
     is defined here.

The change of "after an error is detected" to "in the presence of
errors" was adopted in order to avoid any hint of temporal dependencies
and make the declarative nature of the case clearer.  A proposal to
say that schema processors must detect and signal all errors was
discussed but not adopted, on the grounds that for some years the
Working Group has operated under the principle that when errors are
present all bets are off, so that some WG members were unwilling to
affirm that every error situation is guaranteed detectable at
acceptable cost.

Received on Saturday, 23 September 2006 03:24:21 UTC