Re: [ubl-ndrsc] [Fwd: FW: [oagis-users] UserArea Extensions forVersion 8.0]

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@sun.com>]

Wouldn't it be nice if you could specify "here you can put anything from 
any namespace other
than the current, or here you can put anything from namespace x, and it 
will yes/not be validated"?

Eve L. Maler wrote:

> I would be concerned about putting wildcards everywhere.  It would 
> mean that the vanilla UBL library would allow all kinds of junk, and 
> XSD validation would mean little.  But there may be locations where we 
> want to use it strategically.  (Eventually we'll need a rule about 
> wildcard usage anyway...)
>
>     Eve
>
> Burcham, Bill wrote:
>
>> When I look at that BOD extension example (below) I see an "open 
>> content" model (as described by Roger Costello in this ancient 
>> correspondence 
>> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2000JanMar/0159.html>and 
>> in part three of his eggcelent XML Schema Tutorial 
>> <http://www.xfront.com/xml-schema.html>).  I think UBL should define 
>> an open content model, i.e. just about everywhere in a valid UBL 
>> document instance, it should be easy to hang elements from non-UBL 
>> namespaces.   What do you think?
>>
>> -Bill
>
>

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