- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Mar 2003 09:15:18 +0000
- To: Rainer Becker <w3cschema@rbecker.de>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Rainer Becker <w3cschema@rbecker.de> writes: <snip/> > Please note the empty value of the block-attribute in the complex type > definition "ct_base" and in the element declaration of "Test". > > Question: No matter if I use block="extension" in "ct_base" or > block="extension" in "Test". The behaviour is the same error message. > (I do not change anything in the instance) I'm not sure I understand, but I believe the behaviour you're getting is correct. See Jeni's excellent explanation the recent thread on 'block'. When you put block='extension', what you mean is "Guarantee that any valid instance of this element will have a type related to the declared type only by identity or restriction". It guards against both changes via substitution and changes via xsi:type. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]
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