RE: [XML Schema 1.1] Using doc() in xs:assert ... the referenced document needs a schema? from Costello, Roger L. on 2009-04-27 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from April 2009)

From: Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:49:14 -0400
To: "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <9E51F88D5247B648908850C35A3BBB5003F245AA76@IMCMBX3.MITRE.ORG>

 
> I suspect your comments are based on the 
> Saxon-SA 9.1 implementation

Yes.

> The current draft of XSD 1.1 says that the set of available 
> documents is empty, which is another way of saying that you 
> can't usefully use the doc()function in an assertion.

Yikes!

That's terrible.

In my opinion, this is a serious limitation of XML Schema 1.1


Thanks Michael.

/Roger

Received on Monday, 27 April 2009 14:49:57 UTC