RE: Entity workaround for extending an enumerated list via redefine

Thinking again about this requirement, I feel the right approach is a kind
of "parameterized schema". There are a number of technologies that one could
use to implement this, but a very flexible approach would be to define a
skeletal schema as an XSLT stylesheet with parameters:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="...">

<xsl:param name="innerclose-type" as="xs:string"/>
<xsl:param name="import-xyz-location" as="xs:anyURI"/>

<xsl:template name="make-schema">
 <xs:schema...>

 <xs:import namespace="xyz" schemaLocation="{$import-xyz-location}"/>

 <xs:attribute name="innerclose" type="{$innerclose-type}"/>

 </xs:schema>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

You can then run this stylesheet (with no source document) with different
parameter values to produce any tailored schema that you want.

Of course, you still have a significant problem in managing the deployment
of these variant schemas, for example if two trading partners are using
different variants. But I can imagine ways of resolving that, for example
each variant schema that is generated could require a top-level attribute
with a fixed value that identifies the variant in use.

A set of enumeration values such as currencies could be generated by the
stylesheet from a source XML document whose URI is identified by one of the
stylesheet parameters.

  <xsl:for-each select="document($currency-doc)/*/currency">
    <xs:enumeration value="{.}"/>
  </xsl:for-each>

This all seems much more flexible than trying to use redefines or XML
entities. The downside, though, is that there is no inheritance
relationship: you end up with different people using the same names to refer
to different things.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Hirtle, David
> Sent: 04 March 2005 17:24
> To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: Entity workaround for extending an enumerated list 
> via redefine
> 
> 
> I need to define an attribute
> 
> <xs:attribute name="innerclose" use="optional">
>   <xs:simpleType>
>     <xs:restriction base="xs:NMTOKEN">
>       <xs:enumeration value="universal"/>
>     </xs:restriction>
>   </xs:simpleType>
> </xs:attribute>
> 
> and later extend the enumerated type to include
> 
> <xs:enumeration value="existential"/>
> 
> via <redefine>.
> 
> Now, I realize that extending an enumerated list with <redefine> isn't
> possible. But digging through the mailing list archives, I see that a
> work-around involving entities was mentioned back in 2003 (and later
> confirmed by Henry Thompson):
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xmlschema-dev/2003Jun/0074.html
> 
> My question is this: can this work-around be modified to work 
> with redefine?
> In 
> http://www.ruleml.org/0.89/xsd/modules/connective_module.xsd, 
> I added a
> general entity declaration (which is initially empty) to the 
> top of the
> schema,
> as well as a reference to the entity (called 
> innerclose-universal) where the
> enumeration needs to be extended:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE xs:schema [
> <!ENTITY innerclose-universal ''>
> ]>
> 
> ...
> 
> <xs:attribute name="innerclose" use="optional">
>   <xs:simpleType>
>     <xs:restriction base="xs:NMTOKEN">
>       <xs:enumeration value="universal"/>
>       &innerclose-universal;
>     </xs:restriction>
>   </xs:simpleType>
> </xs:attribute>
> 
> Now in the redefining schema 
> (http://www.ruleml.org/0.89/xsd/folog.xsd), I
> try
> to overwrite the value of the empty entity with an additional 
> enumeration:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE xs:schema [
> <!ENTITY innerclose-universal '<xs:enumeration value="existential"/>'>
> ]>
> 
> However, this doesn't seem to work with either Saxon-SA 8.3	or the
> current XSV (results
> below), e.g. when trying to validate
> http://www.ruleml.org/0.89/exa/folog.ruleml.
> Is this a matter of not being able to overwrite general 
> entities?  (If so,
> there must
> be another way to accomplish this.)  It doesn't appear as 
> though the entity
> is being
> expanded by the XML parser before the validation is taking place.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
> ***
> 
> Saxon:
> 
> Validation error on line 10 column 32 of
> http://www.ruleml.org/0.89/exa/folog.ruleml: 
> Invalid value {existential}. Value "existential" violates the 
> enumeration
> facet
> "universal" of the type of attribute innerclose
> 
> XSV:
> 
> <invalid char="2" code="cvc-attribute.1.2" line="10"
>  resource="http://www.ruleml.org/0.89/exa/folog.ruleml">attribute type
>  check failed for {None}:innerclose: existential not in enumeration
> [universal]
> </invalid>
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:51:43 UTC