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Re: Varying the attlist for an element depending on the element's parent

• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 17:18:18 -0500

Eric A. Stephens scripsit:

> What I'm looking to do is have different ATTLIST defs for the element TYPE
> depending on the element that TYPE is contained within.

In a word, XML validation can't do it.  You have to declare the
attribute list definitions to be a union of the two cases, and
depend on hand-rolled validation inside the application to do the
job.

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