Re: attribute wildcards in open and extensible schemata

"MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:34:10 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.relaxng.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robin,

> I can see where this makes sense and I could special-case for SVG by 
> excluding the attribute wildcard in there for elements in the SVG 
> namespace. But that gets tedious fast because a schema for SVG 1.2 also 
> has to cover XLink, XML Events, sXBL, and probably a dozen or so other 
> schemata that I'm forgetting about right now.

I understand the problem.  The "RELAX NG DTD Compatibility" spec (which 
is intended to mimick DTDs) is too restrictive about the use of identifiers.

I would then use RELAX NG as well as Schematron.  Schematron is very 
good at specifying IDs (even better than NRL).  Is this acceptable?

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/02/11/relaxtron.html

Cheers,

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MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) <[email protected]>