Re: [Fwd: small error in your ebxml manifest proposal]

[christopher ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

Note that I have confirmed this with a re-read of the xmlschema-0
spec. I therefore propose that ##other be the value of the namespace
attribute represented in the xsd:any elements.

Cheers,

Chris

christopher ferris wrote:
> 
> Wayne,
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: small error in your ebxml manifest proposal
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:04:26 -0800
> From: "Carr, Wayne" <wayne.carr@intel.com>
> To: "'chris.ferris@east.sun.com'" <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>
> CC: "Adams, Robert" <robert.adams@intel.com>
> 
> I'm not on the ebxml mailing list so am not sending this to the list.
> If it
> would be useful, feel free to forward it.
> 
> You have an error in your proposed extension mechanism, one that is
> common
> with the use of the "any" element.  XML Schemas must be deterministic.
> For
> every element in an instance document, the parser must know exactly what
> corresponding part of the schema maps to that instance element.  If you
> mix
> up use of the "any" element with the ##any value for the namespace
> attribute
> (the default) and other elements from your own namespace that can appear
> variable number of times, you create a nondeterministic schema.
> 
> <element name="ebXMLHeader" type="ebXMLHeader"/>
> <complexType name='ebXMLHeader'>
> <element ref='Manifest' minOccurs='1'/>
> <element ref='Header' minOccurs='1'/>
> <element ref='RoutingHeader' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs="1"/>
> <any minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='*'/>
> </complexType>
> 
> The way you have the above defined, if an instance document contains a
> RoutingHeader element, there is no way to tell if that came from the
> RoutingHeader element in the schema or the following any element which
> can
> be anything including the RoutingHearder.  The way to get around this is
> to
> put the extension inside an "extension" element.  Another alternative is
> to
> use ##other as the namespace attribute value rather than ##any.  In an
> extension, there is no reason you'd want to be able to put other
> nonspecified elements from your own namespace.
> 
> > **************************
> > Wayne J. Carr
> > wayne.carr@intel.com
> > ICL Web Standards & Architecture
> > Intel Architecture Labs
> > **************************
> >
> >
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