Re: xsi:type and unions

"Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com> writes:

> 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>

I don't think so.  That is, the REC says xsi:type can name a member
type of a declared union [1], clause 2.2.4.  No mention of facets on
the base.  Other related issues have been raised, but this one
probably merits adding to the issues list -- please mail to
www-xml-schema-comments.

What's your opinion as to the correct answer, and why?

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#cos-st-derived-ok
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Received on Wednesday, 27 August 2003 09:06:02 UTC