ISSUE-12

identifying a conformant schema

State:
OPEN
Product:
Testsuite
Raised by:
Paul Downey
Opened on:
2006-01-24
Description:
Our charter calls for a deliverable of:

"# A method for identifying the patterns so that conformance of an XML Schema to
those patterns can be verified. Note that this method is not intended to be used
(and must not be used) by Web Services toolkits as an excuse for restricting
their support of XML Schema."

Do we supply an assertion mechanism, and/or an automatic 
detection mechanism based upon XPath, SCD's or the PSVI?

It would seem that an automatic method would be particularly useful
in finding test schemas 'in the wild' and the XML Schema test suite
which already exhibit our recommended patterns, though could prove
to be complex to implement in practice.
Related emails:
  1. ISSUE-12: indentifying a conformant schema (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2006-01-24)
  2. Re: ISSUE-12: indentifying a conformant schema (from Paul.V.Biron@kp.org on 2006-01-24)
  3. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 24 January 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-01-24)
  4. RE: ISSUE-12: indentifying a conformant schema (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-01-24)
  5. RE: ISSUE-12: indentifying a conformant schema (from Paul.V.Biron@kp.org on 2006-01-24)
  6. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding F2F 27-28 February 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-02-22)
  7. Revised Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding F2F 27-28 February 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-02-27)
  8. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding F2F 27-28 Feb 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-03-12)
  9. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 14 March 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-03-14)
  10. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 28 March 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-03-28)
  11. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 4 April 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-01)
  12. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 18 April 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-15)
  13. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 18 April 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-18)
  14. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 25 April 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-23)
  15. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 25 April 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-25)
  16. ISSUE-12, ISSUE-35: identifying a conformant schema (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-25)
  17. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 2 May 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-28)
  18. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 2 May 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-05-02)
  19. RE: Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 2 May 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-05-02)
  20. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 30 May 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-05-30)
  21. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 30 May 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-05-30)
  22. Agenda (Revised): XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 6 June 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-06-06)
  23. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 6 June 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-06-06)
  24. RE: ISSUE-12 identifying conformant schemas (from gcowe@origoservices.com on 2006-06-06)
  25. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 13 June 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-06-13)
  26. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 13 June 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-06-13)
  27. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 27 June 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-06-26)
  28. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 27 June 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-06-27)
  29. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 4 July 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-07-03)
  30. RE: Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 4 July 200 6 (from ajulian@mayo.edu on 2006-07-03)
  31. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 4 July 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-07-04)
  32. RE: ISSUE-12 identifying conformant schemas (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-07-17)
  33. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 18 July 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-07-17)
  34. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 18 July 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-07-18)
  35. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 25 July 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-07-23)
  36. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 25 July 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-07-25)
  37. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 8 August 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-08-07)
  38. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 8 August 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-08-08)
  39. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 22 August 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-08-21)
  40. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 5 September 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-09-03)
  41. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 5 September 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-09-05)
  42. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 12 September 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-09-11)
  43. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 12 September 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-09-12)
  44. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 19 September 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-09-18)
  45. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 19 September 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-09-19)
  46. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 10 October 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-08)
  47. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 10 October 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-10)
  48. ISSUE-12, etc conformance section (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-11)
  49. RE: ISSUE-12, etc conformance section (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-12)
  50. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 10 October 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-16)
  51. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 17 October 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-18)
  52. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 17 October 2006 - Take2 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-18)
  53. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 24 October 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-24)
  54. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 17 October 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-24)
  55. ISSUE-12 - status of the patterns detector (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-25)
  56. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 7 November 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-11-07)
  57. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 7 November 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-11-07)
  58. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 21 November 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-11-21)
  59. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 28 November 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-11-26)
  60. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 28 November 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-11-28)
  61. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 12 December 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-12-11)
  62. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 12 December 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-12-12)
  63. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 19 December 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-12-19)
  64. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding telcon 19 December 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-12-19)
  65. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 16 January 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-01-15)
  66. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 30 January 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-01-30)
  67. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 6 February 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-02-06)
  68. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 6 March 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-03-06)
  69. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 20 March 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-03-19)
  70. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 20 March 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-03-20)
  71. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 1 May 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-04-30)
  72. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 29 May 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-05-29)
  73. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 12 June 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-06-11)
  74. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 10 July 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-07-09)
  75. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding F2F 1-3 August 2007 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2007-07-31)

Related notes:

2006-03-14: Discussion at F2F regarding use of XQuery or XSLT. W3C can host XSLT, so looks like a good choice for an online service.