Re: Schema for schemas bugs?

Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> writes:

> Henry wrote:
> > Sorry for the confusion -- you're right that the inclusion in the
> > sForS of the 'information only' definitions of the builtin primitive
> > datatypes is problematic. I would note in our defense that the quote
> > above says you can't have anySimpleType as the {base type def} of
> > and _user-defined_ types, but I agree that taken as a user schema
> > doc., the published sForS violates this constraint.
> 
> Could you point out where this constraint is? The only constraint that
> I could find was in the non-normative section 3.14.1 of the Structures
> Rec
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Simple_Type_Definition_details).
> I can't find a similar restriction in the normative Datatypes Rec...?

You're right, it's non-normative.  None-the-less, the point that
actually trying to build a typedef by restricting aST is incoherent is 
clearly true, so processors would be well-advised to flag any attempt
to do so as an error.

Erratum required, I believe.

ht
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Received on Tuesday, 23 April 2002 08:44:37 UTC