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• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 16 Jul 2003 10:51:33 +0200
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On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:41, Bob Foster wrote:

> From your other comments, I assume you agree that arbitrarily picking one of
> the valid types isn't the best possible outcome. ;-} It's more a consequence
> of an API that is limited to returning a single type name.

Yes.

> Seems like the API would be more useful, better suited to regular models and
> more universally applicable if it returned a set of validated types.

Exactly. Another option is to check if the schema is ambiguous before
running MSV and that's where RelaxMeter [1] can play a role (even if it
has its own definition of what's ambiguous): if you schema passes
RelaxMeter then you can be sure that it's safe to rely on MSV's type
assignments.

[1] http://www.kohsuke.org/relaxng/meter/

Eric

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