RE: Interaction of explicit attributes and wildcards

I'm not sure how my message of 8 Dec came to be reposted, but I'm glad it's
caused some discussion.

This situation can't occur with elements because UPA prevents an element
particle overlapping with an element wildcard particle. There's no
corresponding rule for attributes: the explicit attribute wins over the
attribute wildcard. It's not clear why the rules for elements/attributes
here are asymmetric.

Rather than making this case an error (an invalid schema), it would seem
more helpful to define the rules so that use="prohibited" means what it
says: an attribute of this name is prohibited, despite the presence of a
wildcard that would otherwise permit it.

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


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> [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Henry S. Thompson
> Sent: 24 January 2007 13:49
> To: srinivasarao vegunta
> Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Interaction of explicit attributes and wildcards
> 
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> srinivasarao vegunta writes:
> 
>  According to several schema processors, (Saxon, Xerces, MS 
> .NET), the        
>  following instance:                                          
>                 
>  <e att1="banana"/>                                           
>                 
>  is valid against the following schema:                       
>                 
>  <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"       
>                 
>  elementFormDefault="qualified" 
> attributeFormDefault="unqualified">           
>  <xs:complexType name="B">                                    
>                 
>  <xs:sequence/>                                               
>                 
>  <xs:attribute name="att1" use="optional" type="xs:decimal"/> 
>                 
>  <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##local"                         
>                 
>  processContents="skip"/>                                     
>                 
>  </xs:complexType>                                            
>                 
>  <xs:complexType name="R">                                    
>                 
>  <xs:complexContent>                                          
>                 
>  <xs:restriction base="B">                                    
>                 
>  <xs:attribute name="att1" use="prohibited"/>                 
>                 
>  <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##local"                         
>                 
>  processContents="skip"/>                                     
>                 
>  </xs:restriction>                                            
>                 
>  </xs:complexContent>                                         
>                 
>  </xs:complexType>                                            
>                 
>  <xs:element name="e" type="R"/>                              
>                 
>  </xs:schema>                                                 
>                 
>  But change the element declaration to <xs:element name="e" 
> type="B"/>, and   
>  validation fails, saying that "banana" is not a valid 
> xs:decimal (the same   
>  set of schema processors agree on this).                     
>                 
>  Surely the element cannot be a valid instance of R unless it 
> is also a valid 
>  instance of B?                                               
>                 
> 
> You have hit on one of the areas where the Schema REC fails 
> to live up to its own promise that restrictions accept 
> subsets of their base.
> 
> The behaviour you describe is conformant, it follows all the 
> explicit rules in the spec. for checking valid restrictions.  
> It's just that those rules aren't quite 'right'.
> 
> The XML Schema WG expects to fix this problem in v1.1.
> 
> ht
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