Re: [xml-dev] XML Schema Checklist

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@gmx.de>]

Costello, Roger L. wrote:

> Before publishing your XML Schemas, check that they contains these 4 things:
>
> 1.  xml:lang
> 2.  xml:id
> 3.  pattern facets
> 4.  user-defined entities
>
> More ... http://www.xfront.com/XML-Schema-Checklist.pdf
>
> Comments welcome.

Are you saying that a schema should define or reference xml:lang and 
xml:id attributes? Or that the instance documents should use those 
attributes as much as possible?

As for the DOM getElementById making use of xml:id attributes in an 
instance document, a test with http://jsfiddle.net/ady5P/ shows that 
only Opera supports that, Firefox, Chrome, IE 9, Safari don't do that.

As for your pattern example <xs:pattern value="[&#1;-&#127;]*" />, the 
character &#1; is not allowed in XML 1.0 documents which most schemas 
likely are these days.

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