- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:03:48 +0000
- To: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
- Cc: "'Bryan Rasmussen'" <brs@itst.dk>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
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Michael Kay writes:
> Is it conformant to use a schema for validating instances without reporting
> the errors that appear in unused parts of the schema?
In principle, it's not conformant, because a schema with errors isn't
a schema. OTOH, there evidently _is_ a bug-free schema which is
sufficient for some validation episodes -- let's just say you used an
oracle and constructed that schema and used it, conformantly.
ht
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