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Michael Kay writes:

> Is it conformant to use a schema for validating instances without reporti=
ng
> the errors that appear in unused parts of the schema?

In principle, it's not conformant, because a schema with errors isn't
a schema.  OTOH, there evidently _is_ a bug-free schema which is
sufficient for some validation episodes -- let's just say you used an
oracle and constructed that schema and used it, conformantly.

ht
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