Confused about instance validation

• From: Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:33:56 -0000
• To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <477A2A8D033C42D8814B0B8D45E2E919@Codalogic>

I have the following schema:

  <xs:schema
     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
     targetNamespace="http://codalogic.com/schemas/UnexpectedAttribute.xsd"
     xmlns="http://codalogic.com/schemas/UnexpectedAttribute.xsd"
     elementFormDefault="qualified">

     <xs:element name="MyElement" type="MyType"/>

     <xs:complexType name="MyType"/>
  </xs:schema>

And then the following XML instance:

  <MyElement xmlns="http://codalogic.com/schemas/UnexpectedAttribute.xsd"
      AnAttribute="AnAttribute"/>

Both Microsoft and XSV report the instance as invalid because the attribute 
is unexpected.

However, I would have thought that MyType is effectively xs:anyType which 
allows an attribute wildcard with any namespace and lax processing.  Hence 
the instance should be valid.

Does anyone have any opinions?

Thanks,

Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
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data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes.
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Received on Friday, 12 February 2010 12:34:47 UTC