SOM small inconsistency

Monday, January 12, 2004

XML

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Have you noticed that even if the W3C WXS spec allows annotations in the root <xs:schema> element, the corresponding .NET class XmlSchema does not inherit from XmlSchemaAnnotated as almost every other element does?
Looks like an "inheritance bug" to me ;)

[Update]: Dare corrected my mistake by clarifying that there can be multiple annotations, unlike the other SchemaAnnotated-derived classes. However, I couldn't find any XmlSchema member exposing such information. Therefore, the only workaround seems to be to keep an XPathDocument for the schema too.

3 Comments

It isn't an "inheritance bug". An XmlSchemaAnnotated object has one Annotation property but an xs:schema element can have multiple xs:annotation elements.

Dare Obasanjo - Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:22:00 AM

You're definitely right! :o)

I missed the * after "| annotation" :S

Daniel Cazzulino - Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:16:00 PM

Even if you're right, Dare, I can't find the XmlSchema member where I'm supposed to retrieve them. There isn't a Annotations property of type XmlSchemaAnnotation[], is there?

I suppose I could retrieve it through XmlSchema.Items, but I would like the PSCI appropriate member, just like Elements, Attributes, etc.

Daniel Cazzulino - Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:51:00 PM

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