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RE: Element + complextype name in xml schema

From: Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik@4commerce.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:50:02 +0200
To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
Cc: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>, XML-SCHEMA <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1112986202.11240.1.camel@librax>
RE: Element + complextype name in xml schema

Hi,

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:43 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> > I've been sent an xsd that uses the following construct :
> > 
> > <xsi:element name="foo">
> >   <xsi:complexType name="foo">
> > 
> > Is this something allowed ? 
> 
> No, it's not. A complex type defined anywhere except at the top level must
> be anonymous.
> 
> I'm afraid I can't see immediately where the spec says this but I'm sure it
> does.

It does in the schema for schema:

 <xs:complexType name="localComplexType">
    [...]
        <xs:attribute name="name" use="prohibited"/>


Kasimier
Received on Friday, 8 April 2005 18:50:18 GMT

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