Re: [xml] enhancement of XML Schema content model error reports

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:10:06PM +0100, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As of xmlschemas.c rev. 1.97 the new xmlregexp.c functions for
> error analysis are integrated into the error reports.
>
> Examples:
>
> 1. Unexpected elements:
>   "This element is not expected. Expected is one of {http://FOO}'foo',
>    {http://BAR}*.";
>   If no other elements are expected, "This element is not expected."
>   will be reported only.
>
> 2. Missing elements:
>   "Missing child element(s). Expected is {##other:http//FOO}*"
>
> For every namespace of a wildcard with multiple namespaces, there
> will be one reported item.
> Example:
>   <any namespace="http://FOO urn:foo:bar ##local"/>)
>   Will be reported as:
>   "Expected is one of {http://FOO}*, {urn:foo:bar}*, *."
>
> Any comments on the output?
> I tend to dislike the naked * if using ##local, but
> won't change it, if it's OK with you.

  I would remove the trailing '.' , it's correct from a grammatical
english point of view but confusing since '*' and '.' have meanings
for regular expressions. If you want to keep the '.' then we could separate
it with a space,

Daniel

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