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Re: Processing instruction to designate a schema as subset of

• From: Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>
• To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:33:48 +0100

Well 'standalone' is part of the XML declaration; I was thinking of
a processing instruction (relevant only to a schema) like:-

<?xml-subset superset-loc="http://..." superset-ns="http://..." type="strict"?>

where 'superset-loc' would be a url to the location of the superset schema,
'superset-ns' would be the namespace of the superset schema (optional,
without it being the same namespace as the subset) and 'type' would specify
whether the validation is to allow nodes only found in the superset and not
in the subset (values perhaps 'strict' and 'lax' for 'don't allow' and
'do allow' such nodes respecively).

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Stephen D Green

PS 'xml-subset' is probably not appropriate enough a PI name
maybe 'xml-subset-schema' a little better
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> 2009/8/27 mozer <xmlizer@gmail.com>:
>> Do you mean something like standalone="yes/no" ?
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>> Xmlizer
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>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Stephen Green<stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Would it be feasible to use a processing instruction at the
>>> top of an xml schema to designate it as a subset of another
>>> schema (in the sense Rick Jelliffe recently mentioned on this
>>> list of all instances valid by the subset schema being also
>>> valid by the superset schema)? How would one go about
>>> defining such a processing instruction? Would it have to be
>>> something like DSDL - via ISO? I noticed Rick's mention of
>>> the need for specifying a schema and/or namespace as a
>>> subset of another schema and/or namespace and thought
>>> maybe the problem could get critical mass of interest sufficient
>>> to solving it. I have found the problem exists not only when
>>> the subset schema has a different namespace; it was tricky
>>> to find a way to define a subset without changing the
>>> namespace when first working on subsets for the Universal
>>> Business Language and I think people eventually just wrote
>>> a second schema with the same namespace but without any
>>> way other than an accompanying prose spec to show it as
>>> defining a subset of a superset (the Standard UBL schemas).
>>>
>>> Maybe to solve this a processing instruction could be defined
>>> which specifies within a subset schema that it is a subset of
>>> schema at location ABC, either same namespace or
>>> namespace XYZ. There might also need to be a way to tell
>>> tools (if feasible, I've no idea) that they should either allow
>>> nodes of just the superset or not when the subset schema is
>>> given as the schema for the instance. How then to get such
>>> a PI or set of PIs specified and supported?
>>>
>>> Otherwise it might be that one has to stick with prose and/or
>>> accompanying (test) assertions such as those of Schematron
>>> or (work-in-progress) OASIS TAG TC's Test Assertion Markup
>>> Language (shameless plug).
>>> ---
>>> Stephen D Green
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