xsi:type and unions

• From: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>
• Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:36:26 -0700
• To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <830178CE7378FC40BC6F1DDADCFDD1D185181F@RED-MSG-31.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

Is there any text in the W3C XML Schema recommendation that makes the
following instance invalid according to the schema below. 

<s xmlns="b64" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:type="xs:hexBinary">1234</s>


<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
targetNamespace="b64" 
xmlns:b64="b64"> 
        <xs:element name="s" type="b64:myType2"/> 

        <xs:simpleType name="myType"> 
                <xs:union memberTypes="xs:base64Binary xs:hexBinary
xs:NOTATION"/> 
        </xs:simpleType> 

        <xs:simpleType name="myType2"> 
                <xs:restriction base="b64:myType"> 
                        <xs:pattern value="abcd"/> 
                </xs:restriction> 
        </xs:simpleType> 
</xs:schema>

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