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Re: Attribute Order

• To: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Subject: Re: Attribute Order
• From: Eddie Robertsson <eddie@a...>
• Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:43:21 +1100
• Cc: 'Michael Fitzgerald' <mike@w...>, xml-dev@l...
• References: <3549BAFD79A7D411A1CF00508B62B5BC0124B930@e...>

> My reading of the above is that if the interleaved child pattern is a
> sequence, then it seems that it can be interleaved with unordered content,
> but not broken up.
>
> I'd be happy if RELAX NG separated out the orthogonal constraint of order
> from that of contiguity; i.e., items can be ordered and contiguous, ordered
> and discontiguous, unordered and contiguous, or unordered and discontiguous.
> I haven't done a careful reading of the RELAX NG spec, but I don't think it
> does. I know XML Schema doesn't.

Maybe I missed the beginning of the thread but have you considered Schematron?
You can either move completely to Schematron or embedd Schematron rules within
W3C XML Schema or within RELAX-NG schemas.

Cheers,
-Eddie

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