- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 15:41:41 +0100
- To: Paul Warren <pdw@decisionsoft.com>
- CC: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Paul Warren wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 13:46, Robin Berjon wrote: >>I don't think this is possible, but I might have missed something. Is it >>possible to have a global <any> in order to produce a schema for a vocabulary >>that will occur solely embedded within random XML? I'd like to validate subtrees >>containing my language without knowing anything about the enclosing tree, >>especially nothing about the root element. It'd be jolly useful. > > It is not possible to have a global <any>, but even if it were I don't > understand what it would achieve. Whether your language can appear > within the enclosing tree is determined by the schema for the enclosing > tree? There's nothing you can do in your schema to alter where your > elements are allowed to be included inside other XML. That's not the point. I want to /not/ have a schema for the enclosing XML. I just want one for my vocabulary, irrespective of what it's embedded in, and I want to be able to use that schema whether or not a schema exists for the enclosing XML. -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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