Re: Deriving a simpleContent element from an anyType or anySimple Type from Henry S. Thompson on 2002-01-11 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from January 2002)

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Jan 2002 14:05:04 +0000
To: Simon.Cox@csiro.au
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Message-ID: <f5b3d1dugof.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

Simon.Cox@csiro.au writes:

> XSV says OK to this pattern.  
> 
> But Xerces (via SQC) complains that xs:string is not a valid restriction of
> xs:anySimpleType.  
> Is this true?

It is.  It says so at [1] in the REC.

> The datatypes rec implies that anySimpleType is actually a
> union of the simple types, rather than an ur-type.  Does this make any
> difference?  

No.

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#section-Built-in-Simple-Type-Definition
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