An `<xs:element ref="p:foo">` had its prefix stripped and the element assumed to
be in the schema's target namespace. That mis-qualified every reference to an
imported element: a restriction of an `##other` wildcard by such a reference was
rejected (the element looked like the target namespace, which `##other` forbids),
and the same mis-qualification rejected valid instances whose elements were
correctly in the imported namespace.
The reference's QName is now resolved by standard XML namespace rules against the
schema root's xmlns bindings: a bound prefix gives its namespace (an imported
element lands in the imported namespace), an unprefixed name the default
namespace, or no namespace when none is declared. Substitution-group members
stay in the target namespace (this schema's own globals).
The content model is shared between schema-restriction checks and instance
validation, so both improve. XSTS: valid schemas rejected 32 to 4, invalid
schemas accepted 526 to 520, valid instances rejected 214 to 180, invalid
instances accepted held at 160.
Disclosed limitations: a prefix re-bound on an inner element is not honored,
cross-namespace substitution-group members are not modeled, and a dangling
reference is not yet flagged.
Mihaela Mihaljevic
828ed195f0