RE: Here is a list of the ways that an element or attribute may specify its value space ... is the list complete? from Costello, Roger L. on 2011-05-27 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from May 2011)

From: Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:55:41 -0400
To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <9E51F88D5247B648908850C35A3BBB50053F7C539C@IMCMBX3.MITRE.ORG>

Hi Noah,

> It might be more in keeping with XSD terminology to say something like:
> 
> "Here is a list of the ways that an XSD element or attribute declaration 
> can specify the valid content for elements or attributes."

Good suggestion!

So, for an element, are these all the ways?

1. fixed

2. type attribute, XSD data type

3. type attribute, user-defined data type

4. complexType child element

5. simpleType child element

6. ref to an element

7. no type specified


For an attribute, are these all the ways?

1. fixed

2. type attribute, XSD data type

3. type attribute, user-defined data type

4. simpleType child element

5. ref to an element

6. no type specified

/Roger

Received on Friday, 27 May 2011 14:56:09 UTC