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Re: XSD question

• To: "DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)" <bob.ducharme@l...>
• Subject: Re: XSD question
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:36:12 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <FEF4858E8AB32D4EAC2CF2A7D85386EBE52BB0@l...> (BobDuCharme's message of "Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:27:54 -0400")
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"DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)" <bob.ducharme@l...> writes:

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> Well, as long as we've got the thread going here... 
>
>>Lax processing is recursive, so the non-beta
>>children of alpha will be laxly validated as well, unto the n-th
>>generation.
>
> Then why was the word "children" used in the quoted passage ("...or any
> items among its [children]")instead of "descendants"?

That phrase is coming out in an agreed erratum (but it's not being
replaced with descendants, so the point still stands).

> My experience seems to bear out what Dare says. Here's my schema:
> In the absence of the kinds of declarations described by Jeni for other
> potential parents of beta, descendants of the processContents="lax"
> element's children seem to be processed as if those children had a
> processContents value of "skip". Otherwise, the x element in the second beta
> element would have triggered an error, right? 

XSV flags errors for both the child and the grandchild.

> My basic goal is this: to write a schema that accepts everything in a
> well-formed document except those elements specifically declared in that
> schema, wherever they may turn up in the document. It's not looking
> encouraging in XSD, although I have managed it in RNG. 

I think your schema is precisely the way the W3C XML Schema REC
intended for this to be achieved -- it appears the REC needs
clarification in this area, as evidently Xerces C++ and XSV disagree.

I'd be interested to hear from other implementors wrt this example.

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