RE: Restricting Wildcards

Henry:
I'm really confused about this now.  The base has an "any" that allows
one element.  The derived type replaces this with two elements.  How is
this a valid restriction?  I guess I'm missing a concept here.

All the best, Ashok

-----Original Message-----
From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:14 AM
To: Dare Obasanjo
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org; www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Subject: Re: Restricting Wildcards


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

> Is the following restriction valid: 
> 
> BASE: 
> <xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"> 
>   <xs:any namespace="##any" processContents="skip" minOccurs="1"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/> 
> </xs:sequence> 
> 
> 
> DERIVED: 
>      <xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"> 
>            <xs:element name="A" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded" />

>            <xs:element name="B" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded" />

>      </xs:sequence>
> 
> 2 There is a complete *order-preserving* functional mapping from the
particles in the {particles} of R to the particles in the {particles} of
B such that all of the following must be true: 

> [Definition:]  A complete functional mapping is order-preserving if
each particle r in the domain R maps to a particle b in the range B
which follows (not necessarily immediately) the particle in the range B
mapped to by the predecessor of r, if any, where "predecessor" and
"follows" are defined with respect to the order of the lists which
constitute R and B. " 

Yup, that looks like a bug to me.  A similar problem would arise with
substitution groups, which are also an implicit disjunction, were it
not for the explicit statement that they are treated _as_ a
disjunction for checking restriction.  We should have said something
similar for wildcards.

I say 'bug' because I think it's clear the _intention_ was that this
should be valid -- certainly the set of valid instances of the
'derived' type def. is a (proper) subset of the set of valid instances
of
the base type def.

ht
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