5257 2007-11-08 16:37:04 +0000 Correct references to legitimately nilled elements (ELV(E)) 2008-04-11 21:54:02 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XML Schema Structures: XSD Part 1 1.1 only Macintosh All CLOSED FIXED terminology cluster editorial, resolved P1 normal --- 1 cmsmcq cmsmcq www-xml-schema-comments oldest_to_newest 17627 0 cmsmcq 2007-11-08 16:37:04 +0000 The Structures spec has several occasions to refer to the set of elements which are legitimately nilled (i.e. their governing declaration has nillable=true and the element instance has xsi:nil='true'). In XSDL 1.0 and XSDL 1.1 both, this takes the form of a reference to clause 3.2 of the validation rule Element Locally Valid (Element). In XSDL 1.0, this clause reference is correct. In XSDL 1.1, clause 3.2 now handles the more general case where the element declaration has nillable=true, regardless of what is happening in the instance. The consequence is to render incomprehensible (and wrong) most of the other parts of the spec that refer to clause ELV(E) 3.2. The clause that covers the same set of situations is now numbered 3.2.3. Either the editors should update the clause references to produce the correct number, or a term should be defined to denote the relevant concept and the clause references should be rephrased to use references to the new technical term. Personally, this editor believes the latter (technical term) is preferable (both here and for virtually every occurrence of clause references in the document), but the Working Group or other editors may have different views. 19788 1 cmsmcq 2008-04-11 21:53:49 +0000 This issue was resolved by the proposal at http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/xmlschema-1/structures.b5195.html (member-only link) adopted by the WG 28 March 2008.