- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 04 Feb 2003 17:58:42 +0000
- To: Bob Schloss <rschloss@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org, Oleg Tkachenko <olegt@multiconn.com>
Bob Schloss <rschloss@us.ibm.com> writes:
> IBM XML Schema Quality Checker (available for free download from
> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmlsqc ) says:
>
> Effective content model of complexType derivedType includes the <all> as
> part of an implied sequence with the <all> from that type's ancestor,
> complexType baseType [ located at file:/C:/SQC211/extallgroup.xsd ]. Since
> <all> cannot appear inside sequence, even implied, complexType derivedType
> is invalid.
Very usefully and succinctly put.
> <all> cannot be used in a complexType which is derived.
Not in general true, unless I've misunderstood -- extension which adds
only attributes, or restriction, are both possible derivations from a
base with <all> which yields <all>, and the restriction case even
includes an <all> in the XML representation of the derived type.
ht
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