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Re: XML Schema Question

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: XML Schema Question
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:55:37 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE03F9EF92@h...> (ClaudeL. Bullard's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:23:15 -0600")
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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> writes:

> We are assuming that the W3C validator at
> http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv
> is the gold standard (not quite but really the reference implementation):

Thanks for your endorsement, but XSV is not the gold standard -- as
the status page [1] makes clear, there are implementation gaps and
known bugs, to say nothing of unknown bugs.

> Using that implementation, I get the following:

[errors]

> So, http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#normative-schemaSchema

<snip/>

> so this
>
> 	<xsd:choice minOccurs="0">
> 		<xsd:element ref="AudioClip"/>
> 		<xsd:element ref="MovieTexture"/>
> 		<xsd:element ref="ProtoInstance"/>
> 	</xsd:choice>
>
> and this
>
> 	<xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="6">
> 		<xsd:element ref="ImageTexture"/>
> 		<xsd:element ref="MovieTexture"/>
> 		<xsd:element ref="MultiTexture"/>
> 		<xsd:element ref="PixelTexture"/>
> 		<xsd:element ref="ProtoInstance"/>
> 	</xsd:choice>
>
> are invalid, yes?

There are invalid _as named group definitions_.  With named groups, we
had a choice:

 1) Allow min/max both on the reference and the definition;
 2) Allow min/max both only on the reference;
 3) Allow min/max both only on the definition.

We chose (2).  Sorry for the confusion.

ht

[1] http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/xsv-status.html
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