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Re: Re: HL7 use of xs:anyType extension

• To: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@t...>
• Subject: Re: Re: HL7 use of xs:anyType extension
• From: ht@i... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:15:42 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>, "Boris Kolpackov" <boris@c...>
• In-reply-to: <007801c68adb$07406750$0600a8c0@RW> (Pete Cordell's message of "Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:06:56 +0100")
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Sorry, you're both on the wrong track.

Given this pair of elements in an XML Schema document:

<xsd:complexType name="varies">
 <xsd:complexContent>
   <xsd:extension base="xsd:anyType"/>
  </xsd:complexContent>
 </xsd:complexType>

  <xsd:complexType name="myType">
   <xsd:complexContent>
      <xsd:extension base="varies">
        <xsd:attribute name="foo" type="xsd:int"/>
      </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
  </xsd:complexType>

the complex type definition assigned to 'myType' has, effectively, the
following representation:

 <xs:complexType name="myType">
  <xs:sequence>
   <xs:any minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax"/>
  </xs:sequence>
  <xs:attribute name="foo" type="xs:int"/>
  <xs:anyAttribute processContents="lax"/>
 </xs:complexType>

It follows that 

 <myElement anotherAttribute="x" foo="y">bar</myElement>

is _not_ valid wrt 'myType', because 'y' is not a valid *int*.

ht
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  • HL7 use of xs:anyType extension
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@t...>
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    • From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@c...>
  • Re: Re: HL7 use of xs:anyType extension
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@t...>

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