- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 06 Feb 2003 15:48:19 +0000
- To: robin.berjon@expway.fr
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> writes:
> 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.
You don't need to do anything beyond associating your namespace with
your schema, either via command line, or xsi:schemaLocation in the
instance, or the namespace URI of your namespace. The REC defines
schema-validation so that a schema-validator may use xs:anyType for
any element it doesn't recognise, starting at the root. In the case
you are interested in, this will recurse until it finds your stuff,
then start validating for real.
XSV supports this pattern, for one, I can't speak for the others.
ht
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