Re: Schema 1.1: xs:anyEnumeration considered?

I'm not optimistic that we'll get to do anything about this in Schema 1.1, 
but it's not a new requirement.  I believe it's been raised by a number of 
people over the years, and the WG generally understands that the need is 
there.  Not speaking formally for the WG, my impression is that the main 
reason it's unlikely to happen is just schedule pressure in a relatively 
small workgroup.  We have lots of users, but relatively few people 
actually putting serious time into revising the specification.

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"Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@tech-know-ware.com>
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03/16/2007 11:44 AM
 
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        Subject:        Schema 1.1: xs:anyEnumeration considered?



Continuing my exploration of extensibility...

One thing I often see are sets of enumerations that are not extensible.  I 

know that there is a trick with xs:union that you can do with this, but 
many 
people don't know about it and it is ugly.  Simply being able to mark a 
set 
of enumerations as extensible seems a lot cleaner to me.  For example, 
something along the lines of:

    <xs:simpleType name="foo">
        <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
            <xs:pattern value="[a-zA-Z0-0]{3,4}"/>
            <xs:enumeration value="ABC"/>
            <xs:enumeration value="DEFG"/>
            <xs:anyEnumeration/>  <!-- New -->
        </xs:restriction>
    </xs:simpleType>

Here the pattern restricts provides the bounds of what the anyEnumeration 
can permit.  (I thought about having a pattern attribute within the 
xs:anyEnumeration element, but the schema snippet above better reuses 
what's 
defined already.)

This very much more allows the developer to ask for what they want and 
doesn't require them to work around the limitations of the language with 
various insider tricks.

Going further, if named wildcards were allowed (as per my earlier topic in 

the week), the anyEnumeration facet could be:

            <xs:anyEnumeration socket="foo"/>

and in another schema you could have:

    <xs:plugin socket="core:foo">
        <xs:enumeration value="HIJ"/>
        <xs:enumeration value="KLMN"/>
    </xs:plugin>

>From what I understand, this sort of notation could go a long way to 
addressing the problems that Jon Bosak(sp?) described that UBL had with 
enumerations.

Anyway, the question is, was such a thing discussed?

Thanks,

Pete.
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