Re: question on important and restriction

"Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@w3.org> writes:

> > Sorry, I don't see any way to get where you're going, other than
> > define a CipherReferenceType as a new type which simply uses
> >
> >   <element ref="ds:Transforms"/>
> >
> > and then be sure to put
> >
> >   <Transforms xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">...</Transforms>
> >
> > in your instance.
> 
> I actually started out here, but the trick is we tweaked the dsig schema
> to make it easier to use in that we abstracted our types and gave them
> names instead of using name+anonymous-context-type. So the following:
> 
>   <CipherReference URI="http://example.com/foo">
>     <Transforms xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
>       <Transform Algorithm="http://example.org/decode"/>
>     </Transforms>
>   </CipherReference>
> 
>   <complexType name='CipherReferenceType'>
>     <choice>
>       <element ref='ds:Transforms' minOccurs='0'/>
>     </choice>
>     <attribute name='URI' type='uriReference' use='required'/>
>   </complexType>
> 
> gives me
> 
> <schemaError char='13' line='64' phase='instance'
> resource='file:/d:/2tmp/01-17- xmlenc-schema.xsd'>Undefined element
> ds{http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#}:Transforms referenced from content
> model</schemaError> <invalid char='5' code='src-resolve' line='8'
> resource='file:/d:/2tmp/test.xml'> undeclared element
> {http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#}:Transforms</invalid>
> 
> I suspect this is because ds:Transforms is not a global element in dsig:
> 
> - <complexType name="ReferenceType">
> - <sequence>
>   <element name="Transforms" type="ds:TransformsType" minOccurs="0" />

Right, but nothing lost if you make it global and 'ref' it in that
content model, then your CipherReferenceType above would work.

> The following doesn't work:
> 
>      <element name='ds:Transforms' type='ds:TransformsType' minOccurs='0'/>

No, you can't insert things into other namespaces that way.

ht
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Received on Sunday, 18 February 2001 11:15:32 UTC