RE: Clarification regarding DOM3 Validation Spec

I'm no authority on this spec - I've never looked at it before - but my
reading of the explanation "all element information items or wildcards that
can be inserted as a next sibling of this element" is that it should only
include elements which, if inserted, would leave the document valid.
 
Regards,

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


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From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Casey Jordan
Sent: 01 May 2010 00:19
To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Subject: Clarification regarding DOM3 Validation Spec


The DOM3 Validation Spec lists a number of getter interfaces like
Node.allowedNextSiblings and Node.allowedFirstChildren

My question is, should these interfaces return all possible results
regardless of whether they would make the document invalid?

For instance given the following fragment and schema pattern.

<fragment>
   <one/>
   <two/>
   <three/>
<fragment>

conforming to the pattern 

<xs:sequence>
        <xs:element ref="one"/>
        <xs:element ref="two"/>
        <xs:element ref="three"/>
</xs:sequence>

Would a call to <one/>.allowedNextSiblings return an empty set [], since the
sequence is complete or return ['two'] since it is a possible next sibling?

Just need a clarification.

Thanks,

Casey





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