- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:40:30 -0400
- To: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@tech-know-ware.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Pete Cordell writes:
> More importantly, if you had a schema of the form:
>
> <xs:sequence>
> <xs:element name="given" type="xs:string"/>
> <xs:any namespace="##any" processContents="lax"
> minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> <xs:element name="middle" type="xs:string"/>
> <xs:any namespace="##any" processContents="lax"
> minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> <xs:element name="family" type="xs:string"/>
> </xs:sequence>
>
> then I think under the current rules, the following input wouldbe valid:
>
> <given>abc</given>
> <middle>abs</middle>
> <given>ag</given>
> <family>jhjh</family>
>
> where the second given is consumed by the wildcard after <middle>.
Yes. Without wanting to speak for the workgroup, because I don't think
we've formally decided whether to include this, there is at least some
chance that Schema 1.1 will have an additional variant of wildcard. The
syntax may be along the following lines:
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="given" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:any notQName="##defined" processContents="skip"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element name="middle" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:any notQName="##defined" processContents="skip"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element name="family" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:sequence>
The idea would be that the wildcard would not allow any element for which
an element declaration existed anywhere in the schema. So, the second
"given" in your example below would be rejected.
<given>abc</given>
<middle>abs</middle>
<given>ag</given>
<family>jhjh</family>
The theory is that since you knew about the element <given>, if you wanted
to allow it after <middle>, you could have said so; those wildcards are
for things you >don't< know about. I suggest that the nuances of this
feature probably shouldn't be debated until the WG decides whether to
propose it, and if so in what form. I just thought you might want to know
that things like this are under consideration.
Noah
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