xml-dev - Re: Schema for XSLT (concerns mixed content, content attribute)

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

"Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com> writes:

> Curt wrote:
> 
> > The param element reference in the named-template type 
> > definition should have a minOccur="0" and a 
> > maxOccur="unbounded".  As written, a template has to have one 
> > and only one param.
> 
> Don wrote:
> 
> My reading of rule 4.3 under the {content type} definition (found under
> section 4.3.3) implies that there is an implicit <choice minOccurs='0'
> maxOccurs='unbounded' > particle over the particle children of a
> content=mixed complex type.  I'll defer to Henry on this. 	

Don is right, but as I've said I think this is sowing enough confusion
that the expected benefit is being overwhelmed.

> Curt reply:
> 
> I guess it depends on what the intrepretation of "extending" a
> complex type that ultimately derived from a complex type that has a
> content of mixed.  If extending means that param is magically added
> into the mixed content of its base type, then the multiplicity would
> be implied.  If extension in this context means appears that content
> declared in the derived type appears after the base complexType's
> content has been satisifed then param is in the wrong place with the
> wrong multiplicity.  Possibly the behavior is already explicit in
> the schema docs. But for me to get my mind around the schema doc, I
> have to work out from the schemas to schema to the prose and not the
> other way around.

I suspect there's some unclarity in this case -- I'll get back to you.

ht
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