On mer, 2005-04-27 at 09:00 +0300, Razvan MIHAIU wrote:
  

Ian Hunter wrote: 
    

´The obvious question is why would you need attributes outside the
XML Schema specification?¡

 

<simpleType name="myName" xml:lang="en-US">
   . . .
  </simpleType>

 


      

    This is a good example, but I am not concerned about this
situation.
    Let's suppose that you will use some attributes that will actually
influence the validation performed with your Schema. Is that a good
practice ? Is it widespread ? Currently, I never encoutered a project
in which XML Schema is extended in this way.
    

This would be a very poor practice and that's forbidden by the WXS rec
that says that foreign attributes should be ignored as far as validation
is concerned.
  

-- 
Regards,
Razvan

SCJP preparation material:

http://www.mihaiu.name/2004/sun_java_scjp_310_035/index.html
http://www.mihaiu.name/2004/sun_java_scjp_310_035_test1/index.html
http://www.mihaiu.name/2004/sun_java_scjp_310_035_test2/index.html
http://www.mihaiu.name/2004/sun_java_scjp_310_035_test3/index.html
http://www.mihaiu.name/2004/sun_java_scjp_310_035_test4/index.html