RE: Validating lax ANY content with W3C XML Schema validators

Lax validation means that validation occurs if a schema for the
declaration or type definition references is seen. It is not enough for
the element or attribute appearing in the wildcard to share the same
namespace as the target namespace of an available schema. 

So if you have a schema that defines an element myns:Foo and you see a
myns:Foo element in the wildcard content then validation occurs. However
if a myns:NotFoo is seen in content then validation doesn't occur and
the content is skipped since there is no declaration for it in the
schema. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony B. Coates [mailto:abcoates@londonmarketsystems.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:04 AM
> To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
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> This is an issue that came out of a discussion on the public 
> "newsml" list. 
> NewsML has a "DataContent" element which can contain any 
> non-NewsML content, and the "xsd:any" validation is set to 
> "lax".  Some NewsML users were unclear how to add a Schema 
> for the non-NewsML content, so I posted some examples (270K ZIP file):
> 
> http://www.londonmarketsystems.com/newsml/newml-embedded-content.zip
> 
> In one of my examples, "invalidContent.xml", the "xsd:any" 
> content has a Schema, and the content is intentionally 
> invalid.  As I read the W3C XML Schema spec, the "xsd:any" 
> content should be validated using the Schema, and the error 
> should be flagged.  Turbo XML & XSV both flag the error as I 
> would expect, but XML Spy doesn't.  Xerces is ruled out 
> because it ignores "xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation" if there 
> is also an "xsi:schemaLocation", and so it can't validate my 
> examples correctly.
> 
> Am I right in my expectation here, that lax "xsd:any" content 
> should be able to cause real validation errors whenever a 
> Schema for that content can be found?
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 		Tony.
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