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299: AccountReference should be empty

February 7, 2007

closed

Major

Always

Schema

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mgratacos

Summary

The AccountReference type should have an element type of empty. Today it is defined as an implicit string because no type is given.

Reference to an account.

Notes:

  • matthew

    03/05/07 4:12 pm

  • matthew

    03/05/07 4:21 pm

    Telephone me.

    The problem with this definition is that the type of AccountReference is xsd:string because the default is not overridden.

    For example, the following is valid:

    IrrelevantContent

    This should be invalid because the type should be defined as empty. The Empty type is already defined in Shared.xsd as:



    A special type meant to be used for elements with no content and not attributes.

    So AccountReference should be defined as:



    Reference to an account.






  • mgratacos

    03/05/07 4:25 pm

    Thanks. I am on a meeting. The Empty type has the same problem though, right?

  • matthew

    03/05/07 4:54 pm

    Marc – you added Empty type at my request many years ago. Empty Type does not suffter from this problem because it has no content at all.

  • mgratacos

    03/05/07 5:07 pm

    The same change will be applied to all XYReference types. They should all be an extension of Empty.

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