Re: embedded space

[Note www-xml-schema-comments is meant for discussion of the design,
not problems with particular examples vs. particular implementations,
unless of course you think your example points to a design issue,
which doesn't seem to be the case in this case.]

Andy Palmer <Andy.Palmer@mediasurface.com> writes:

> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <Tester colour="dark red"
>               xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema"
>               xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="D:\andyp\xml\tester.xsd">
> 
>  <dummy>hello world</dummy>
> 
> </Tester>

Fine.

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema">
> 
>  <xsd:simpleType name="colours">
>   <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
>    <xsd:enumeration value="red"/>
>    <xsd:enumeration value="dark red"/>
>   </xsd:restriction>
>  </xsd:simpleType>
> 
>  <xsd:element name="Tester">
>   <xsd:complexType>
>    <xsd:sequence>
>     <xsd:element name="dummy" type="xsd:string"/>
>    </xsd:sequence>
>    <xsd:attribute name="colour" type="colours"/>
>    <xsd:attribute name="xsi:schemaLocation" type="xsd:string"/>
Bogus -- no declaration required or allowed.

>    <xsd:attribute name="xmlns:xsi" use="default"
> value="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema" type="xsd:uriReference"/>
Bogus -- no declaration required or allowed.

>    <xsd:attribute name="xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation" type="xsd:string"/>
Bogus -- no declaration required or allowed.

>   </xsd:complexType>
>  </xsd:element>
> 
> </xsd:schema>

> Using XMLSpy 3.5b1 the xsd is fine, but the xml gives the error (on line 2):

The xsd is _not_ fine, as noted above.

> "Unexpected choice 'dark red' for attribute 'colour': (red|dark|red) expected.

But this is a bug.  With the three bogus attr decls removed, and all
the non-breaking spaces, which are bogus in UTF-8, XSV [1] is
happy with your example.  Check Spyb2 before complaining, I guess.

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/2000/09/webdata/xsv
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Received on Wednesday, 6 December 2000 10:28:31 UTC