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Re: xsi:type and broken contracts


broken contracts
"Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...> writes:

> I think Jeni did a good job clearing up your misconceptions. However
> there is one problem with xsi:type which has been bothering me for the
> past couple of days. The xsi:type screws up the kind of type aware
> processing that will be enabled with XQuery and XSLT. 
> 
> With XQuery and XSLT one can attempt to process elements based on their
> XSD types but with xsi:type one can both restrict and extend these types
> in the instance document unbeknownst to the author of the processing
> code. At first glance it seems like both these mechanisms do not
> radically alter the content model in such a manner that carefully
> written type aware processors will be rendered ineffective. 

That was certainly the goal.  If you _do_ depend only required
sub-parts/attributes, and _don't_ access sub-parts by working backwards
from the end, you will always win regardless of xsi:type.

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