Re: xpathDefaultNamespace attribute on xs:assertion

Hi Mike,

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 5:15 PM Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree it's not very useful, because it's very unlikely that an assertion
> on a simple type will reference element names or type names, other than the
> built-in XSD atomic type names; but it's there for completeness. For
> example you can write
>
> <xs:assertion xpathDefaultNamespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> test="$value castable as dateTime"/>
>
> It's there for orthogonality. If there are lots of use cases for putting
> the attribute on xs:assert, but only a rather slender use case for putting
> it on xs:assertion, then it's better to put it on both for the sake of
> consistency.
>

Thanks for the answer. That's very helpful to know.


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Mukul Gandhi