RE: [wss] Critical ISSUE (RE: [wss-comment] Enumerations of QNamefault codes)

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

> It's not a question of whether we use Qnames or URIs. SOAP forces us to
> use Qnames. The problem is that it's *very* *very* bad to apply an
> "enumeration" restriction to a Qname in element or attribute content,
> and the WSS .xsd does exactly that.

Gudge has this trick he showed off at the WS-I face to face yesterday,
he calls it "open enumeration."

Make the item in question be a union of string/enumeration and qname.

	/r$

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