- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Jan 2001 12:11:26 +0000
- To: francis@redrice.com
- Cc: xmlSchema-dev <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Francis Norton <francis@redrice.com> writes:
> ---
> C:\customers\iExml>type date.*
>
> date.xsd
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema"
> elementFormDefault="qualified">
> <xsd:element name="DoB" type="xsd:date">
> <xsd:annotation>
> <xsd:documentation>Date of
> Birth</xsd:documentation>
> </xsd:annotation>
> </xsd:element>
> </xsd:schema>
>
> date.xml
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <DoB xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="date.xsd"/>
>
> C:\customers\iExml>
> ---
>
> xsv (current standalone) reports that date.xml is valid, whereas XMLspy
> 3.5 beta 4 rejects it unless there is a date in there.
XMLSpy is correct. As the XSV homepage [1] records, XSV does not do
much in the way of simple type validation.
> I ahve found documentation for the xsi:nullable attribute but cannot
> find any explicit discussion of this issue. Which is correct, please?
[1] http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/xsv-status.html
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