• To: "'Mark Seaborne'" <MSeaborne@o...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Validating XML documents containing xml:*
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:21:36 -0000
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> I have some XML schemas that do not declare the XML: 
> attributes (lang, base, id). If an instance uses one or more 
> of these attributes must it fail validation against the 
> schema, or can I use these attributes without declaring them 
> in my schemas?

The attributes aren't treated specially by the schema processor: they are
allowed only if they are declared (explicitly, or using wildcards).

The only attributes that are treated specially are the xsi: attributes, for
example xsi:type. (And namespace declarations, but those don't count as
attributes.)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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