The id attribute on any XSD component is of type xs:ID, so each value must be a
valid NCName and unique within the schema document. The values were never
checked, so a malformed (id="", id="123") or duplicated id left the schema
wrongly accepted across many categories (idA-idK, attribute groups, complex
types).
The schema-document tree is walked once, collecting id attributes. Two guards
keep valid schemas from being rejected: appinfo/documentation subtrees are
skipped (their foreign content carries its own non-xs:ID id attributes), and
only the unprefixed id is treated as the component identifier (a foreign xml:id
or pre:id is a different attribute). Findings join the shared parse-time
diagnostics.
XSTS: invalid schemas accepted 1789 to 1688; no other bucket raised.
Mihaela Mihaljevic
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