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Bug 1653 - what is a "wildcard element type"?
Summary: what is a "wildcard element type"?
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formal Semantics 1.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Last Call drafts
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P2 minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jerome Simeon
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2005-07-16 00:33 UTC by Fred Zemke
Modified: 2007-01-16 17:31 UTC (History)
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Description Fred Zemke 2005-07-16 00:33:01 UTC 
3.5.4 Sequence type matching
This section refers to "wildcard element type" and "wildcard
attribute type".  These terms are not defined.  I believe they
refer to elements or attributes of any permitted name and 
the most general permitted types (nillable xs:anyType 
and xs:anySimpleType, respectively). It would be better to show
the complete expansion.  Otherwise the reader may have the 
impression that "element" is one type and "element nillable
of type xs:anyType" is something else.  See also my comment #1614 that 
it would be better if the Formal Semantics did not rely on defaults,
or ask the reader to supply them.
Comment 1 Jerome Simeon 2005-07-19 17:24:32 UTC 
I believe this is editorial.
- Jerome
Comment 2 Jerome Simeon 2006-04-15 23:32:10 UTC 
Taken over by events. This has already been fixed when dealing with bug #1614.
- Jerome