6920 2009-05-19 09:30:34 +0000 WS-Enum: xml:lang causes schema validation failure 2009-06-24 00:06:20 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WS-Resource Access Enumeration PR PC Windows XP CLOSED REMIND P2 normal --- 1 katy_warr katy_warr public-ws-resource-access-notifications oldest_to_newest 25193 0 katy_warr 2009-05-19 09:30:34 +0000 The WS-Enumeration spec uses the xml:lang attribute in order to define the language of the wesn:Reason in the EnumerationEnd message. The definition of this attribute in the corresponding schema causes my schema editor to fail with "Cannot resolve the name 'xml:lang' to a(n) 'attribute declaration' component." This is the offending part of the schema: <xs:complexType name="LanguageSpecificStringType"> <xs:simpleContent> <xs:extension base="xs:string"> <xs:attribute ref="xml:lang" /> <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" /> </xs:extension> </xs:simpleContent> </xs:complexType> I think that the problem may be that xml:lang should be used to define the "language used in the contents and attribute values of any element in an XML document". [1] This isn't how it's being used in the WS-Enumeration spec as it's being used to define the language of the actual message content (i.e. the wsen:Reason). Proposal: -------- Don't use xml:lang to define the Enumeration reason code. In the schema, replace: <xs:attribute ref="xml:lang" /> with <xs:attribute name="lang" type="xs:language" /> and remove the namespace prefix "xml" from the enumeration message. So <wsen:Reason xml:lang="language identifier" > xs:string </wsen:Reason> ? becomes: <wsen:Reason lang="language identifier" > xs:string </wsen:Reason> ? with the same update to the description, i.e.: [Body]/wsen:EnumerationEnd/wsen:Reason This optional element contains text, in the language specified by the @lang attribute, describing the reason for the unexpected enumeration termination. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ 25313 1 bob 2009-05-26 20:42:31 +0000 <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd"> 25314 2 bob 2009-05-26 20:43:59 +0000 resolve with proposal #1