Stuart Schaefer wrote:
Jun and Steve,
Microsoft was supposed to have fixed their XML parser issues with .NET 2.0. It appears that most issues that I have tested are resolved. However, the issue with ##local and ##other are still there.
ooh. that is not good. is it an acknowledged bug, or just a different interpretation of XSD?
The XML-CDL schema defines the propertyListType and cdl elements to have an unlimited choice of either element. MSXML will not accept this. We will either need to allow for a .NET schema and Java schema or my proposal would be to eliminate ##local and force all elements to have namespace qualification.
1. having two different XSDs that map to the same URL is always a bit controversial; it would stop us hosting a consistent image at the end of the URL. However, the semantics of the two schemas would actually match. That is, under .net, the ##other declaration would cover local elements; under xerces the pair of ##local,##other would do what we want. it is only if the schema is used on the wrong runtime that we have a problem. 2. I already do fixup in the build (target "patch-api") to swap between local versions of the schemas and the normative remote locations. Adding some more copy/patch work is not hard at all. 3. I (currently) quite like local stuff, and have used it a lot in my tests. changing it now would break my tests, and this week is a bad week do to that. The week after GGF would work better. 4. I think I need to fully understand the interaction between XSD namespaces and <import> namespaces. They are essentially orthogonal, arent they. <import> namespace just provides a namespace for something to import into, the contents of <cdl:configuration> dont need to be in that NS, we just somehow isolate all toplevel propertylist elements by that namespace. Except, I already isolate stuff by a namespace if you give an element one. --------- Overall, I am mostly in favour of keeping ##local stuff and doing fixup. But because of my confusion about (4), i worry that there is something I dont understand there, and everything ought to be in a namespace. Specifically, if you want to be able to import other people's documents, to extend them, you may need everything in a namespace. -steve