Re: Interaction between redefine+include breaks augmenting a base schema's element with new attributes

David Costanzo <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:33:30 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xerces-j.user
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From: Mukul Gandhi> I would suggest, to open a bug report in Xerce's JIRA with following

> qualifications [snip]


Thanks Mukul, I'll open a JIRA ticket as you suggest.  I'll be sure to attach all the files that are needed to reproduce the issue, as I don't think I'd be able to implement a patch.



From: Michael Glavassevich
> Would also need to review what the standard actually says to determine
> whether there's a bug. Xerces generally tries its best to strictly follow
> the rules from the XML Schema specification and sometimes those rules
> (e.g. type restriction) defy what many users would expect.

I agree that the standards sometimes defy my expectations.  I also understand that appealing to behavior of "xmllint" doesn't mean that Xerces wrong.  I'll try to quote the relevant parts of the specs when I open the ticket.