Re: [xml] strange xmllint behaviour

[Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik 4commerce de>]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 13:07 +0200, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 20:51 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > I'm trying to validate the following document:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";>
> >     <wsdl:types>
> >     </wsdl:types>
> > </wsdl:definitions>
> >
> > against the wsdl schema (found at the expected url)
> >
> > Somehow xmllint outputs this crazy validation error. It's so gross I
> > fear I'm missing something obvious (verified on FC Devel & windows)
>
> It's a bug and related to bug [1]. 

[...]

> The schema processor still has an issue with <any> wildcards with a
> namespace value of "##other". 
> I tried a workaround for the problem described in [1] but it's
> apparently not working.
>
> The instance is accepted if the workaround is removed; unfortunately
> an instance like the following would be then accepted as well:
>
> <wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";>
>       <wsdl:fds/>
> </wsdl:definitions>
>
> I.e. we are currently not able to restrict the namespaces to "##other".
>
> I will remove the workaround if there are no objections, since it seems
> to do more harm than good.

[...]

OK, workaround removed in xmlschemas.c rev. 1.131.
But with the current state, the schema processor will be quite useless
in conjunction with the <any> wildcard: since it's "unbounded" it will
let pass _any_ element node.

We certainly need help from the automaton module here to solve this.

Regards,

Kasimier