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Bug 3053 - Provide clear terms for different validation modes
Summary: Provide clear terms for different validation modes
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: XML Schema
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Structures: XSD Part 1 (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0 only
Hardware: PC Windows 3.1
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Ezell
QA Contact: XML Schema comments list
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Reported: 2006-03-28 01:58 UTC by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Modified: 2012-12-04 00:52 UTC (History)
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Description C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 2006-03-28 01:58:11 UTC
Section 5.2 of the Structures spec defines three distinct modes of
validation (or: three distinct ways of starting a validation 
episode), but does not provide terms for them.  

It would be convenient if names for the different forms of
validation were defined; this would make it easier for users and
other specs to specify, when appropriate, that in a particular
context a particular form of validation should or must be used.

By analogy with the terms proposed for XML Schema 1.1 in
http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/xmlschema-1/structures.rq144.200502.html#validation_outcome
(member-only link), I propose that XML Schema 1.0 be modified
to provide the terms "type-driven validation", "element-driven 
validation", and "lax wildcard validation" for the three
startup methods now defined in section 5.2.