Re: Attributes and Default Namespaces

Thanks Pete for the references. It helps.

Sorry I didn't cross check the definition of xs:anyType against schema
for schemas. It helps me to learn that as well.

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com> wrote:
> Hi Mukul,
>
> I'm afraid I disagree with your assessment here.  After a bit of digging I
> think the following is the issue.
>
> In the schema for schemas, xs:anyType is declared as:
>
>  <xs:complexType name="anyType" mixed="true">
>   <xs:annotation>
>     <xs:documentation>
>  Not the real urType, but as close an approximation as we can
>  get in the XML representation</xs:documentation>
>   </xs:annotation>
>   <xs:sequence>
>     <xs:any minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax"/>
>   </xs:sequence>
>   <xs:anyAttribute processContents="lax"/>
>  </xs:complexType>
>
> The issue is the processContents="lax" on the two wildcards.
>
> When the XML parser finds <Row> in the results, it realises its got a
> definition for that and starts validating against it.  Then we're back to
> the issue that the attributes should be qualified because they are global,
> but they are not because the default namespace doesn't affect attributes.
>
> For the record, on Visual Studio 2008 the following XML validates fine:
>
> <Results xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xmlns="http://raid.raidllp.com" >
> <RowOther>
> <FieldOther FieldID="1234" FieldType="Ticker" Name="Ticker">CARLB DC
> Equity</FieldOther>
> <FieldOther FieldID="1234" FieldType="String" Name="Name">CARLSBERG
> AS-B</FieldOther>
> </RowOther>
> </Results>
>
> HTH,
>
> Pete Cordell
> Codalogic Ltd
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

Received on Saturday, 13 November 2010 12:31:29 UTC