Re: wildcard

Thank you very much Eric. I am obliged.
All these information has helped me a lot.

Thanks once again for your help.

Cheers,
Rahul.


> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:00:38 +0200
> From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
> 
> Rahul Srivastava wrote:
> 
> > Thank you very much Eric. That was an excellent explaination.
> 
> 
> Although not an answer to your question ;=) ... sorry!
> 
> 
> > 
> > But, the second part is yet not very clear. 3.10.6 of the specification 
defines 
> > schema component constraint viz. wildcard subset, attribute wildcard union 
and 
> > attribute wildcard intersection.
> > 
> > Can you tell, when do you need to check for such constraints.
> 
> 
> This needs to be read after the explanation, in 3.10.2 of how the XML 
> representation of the wildcard is transformed into "namespace constraint":
> 
> <quote>
> {namespace constraint}Dependent on the ·actual value· of the namespace 
> [attribute]: if absent, then any, otherwise as follows:
> 
> ##any:
>   any
> ##other:
>   a pair of not and the ·actual value· of the targetNamespace [attribute]
>   of the <schema> ancestor element information item if present, otherwise
>   ·absent·.
> otherwise:
>      a set whose members are namespace names corresponding to
>      the space-delimited substrings of the string, except
>      1 if one such substring is ##targetNamespace, the corresponding
>        member is the ·actual value· of the targetNamespace [attribute] of
>        the <schema> ancestor element information item if present,
>        otherwise ·absent·.
>      2 if one such substring is ##local, the corresponding member is
>        ·absent·.
> </quote>
> 
> My understanding is that even though 3.10.6 is describing a fairly 
> general mechanism with intersections, unions and exclusions, the XML 
> representation doesn't allow all the combinations to be described (for 
> instance, you cannot represent the expression "any namespace that isn't 
> defined" nor even "any namespaces except a and b".
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Rahul.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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