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RE: XML Schema to relaxNG xslt

• To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: XML Schema to relaxNG xslt
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:19:21 -0700
• Cc: "Rick Taylor" <taylor@p...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: XML Schema to relaxNG xslt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] 
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:46 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: John Cowan; Rick Taylor; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  XML Schema to relaxNG xslt

> > does RELAX NG mimic restrictions (especially the nested ones) that 
> > involve facets like xs:minInclusive, xs:maxInclusive?
> 
> RNG can specify constraints on simple types, 

RELAX NG can specify pattern constraints but I haven't seen the ability
to specify ranges which is what xs:minInclusive, xs:maxInclusive et al
do.  Can I specify a type that is a date between 1990 and 2000 or a time
between  9:00AM and 5:00 PM in RELAX NG? 

On looking at the tutorial it seems this could be done if a RELAX NG
implementation supported the W3C XML Schema Datatypes recommendation as
a type library and implemented the facets as datatype parameters.
However I don't see anything that implies that an implementation with
such functionality exists or is forthcoming. 

> but not nested  constraints. 

Thought so. 

> How does one restrict complex types in WXS?

A restriction of a complex type is a type that validates a subset of
what the base type does. An example is 

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

 <!-- base type -->
 <xs:complexType name="XML-Deviant">
  <xs:sequence>
   <xs:element name="numPosts" type="xs:integer" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="1" /> 
   <xs:element name="signature" type="xs:string" nillable="true" />
  </xs:sequence>
  <xs:attribute name="firstSubscribed" type="xs:date" use="required" />
  <xs:attribute name="mailReader" type="xs:string"/>
 </xs:complexType>



 <!-- derived type --> 
  <xs:complexType name="DareObasanjo">
   <xs:complexContent>
   <xs:restriction base="XML-Deviant">
   <xs:sequence>
    <xs:element name="numPosts" type="xs:integer" minOccurs="1" /> 
    <xs:element name="signature" type="xs:string" nillable="false" />
   </xs:sequence>
   <xs:attribute name="firstSubscribed" type="xs:date" use="optional" />
   <xs:attribute name="mailReader" type="xs:string" fixed="Microsoft
Outlook" />
   </xs:restriction>
   </xs:complexContent>
  </xs:complexType> 


</xs:schema>

> In the spec:  
>
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/spec-20011203.html#IDAG3YR
>
>Section 4.7, 3rd paragraph.

Funny enough I found the language in the spec as hard to parse as when I
first started reading the 
W3C XML Schema Structures recommendation less than a year ago. 

>In the tutorial:
>
>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/tutorial-20011203.html#ID
A3PZR

Ahhh, much better. Too bad W3C XML Schema Primer doesn't do as complete
a job as the RELAX NG tutorial. 

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