wildcard

• From: Rahul Srivastava <Rahul.Srivastava@Sun.COM>
• Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:37:20 +0000 (Asia/Calcutta)
• To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200109201208.RAA25176@blr-root.India.Sun.COM>

Hi,

I am sorry if this question has been asked before on this list.

In the spec, 3.10.2, describing wildcard, it says:

namespace = ((##any | ##other) | List of (anyURI | (##targetNamespace | ##local)) )

Here, actually the brackets confuse me!. Can I represent the above as:

namespace = ##any | ##other | ListOf( anyURI | ##targetNamespace | ##local)

If no, what meaning do these brackets add?.
If yes, then the above means, namespace can be either ##any or ##other or ListOf(...)
where, ListOf( anyURI | ##targetNamespace | ##local) means
ListOf( anyURI ) or ListOf( ##targetNamespace) or ListOf( ##local )

Now, my question is, if the above holds true, what is the meaning of ListOf( 
##targetNamespace ) or ListOf( ##local ) as they are single values.

Cheers,
Rahul.

Received on Thursday, 20 September 2001 08:08:36 UTC