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Re: limiting occurrence of recursive elements in scemas?

• To: Jon IV Thompson Coon <jon.thompson@h...>
• Subject: Re: limiting occurrence of recursive elements in scemas?
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:47:56 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1067051716.3f99eac47a8d6@w...> (Jon IV ThompsonCoon's message of "Sat, 25 Oct 2003 05:15:16 +0200")
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Jon IV Thompson Coon <jon.thompson@h...> writes:

> Spesifically the W3C schema.
>
> that's a lot of hours of failed DIY before folding out and resorting to 
> asking someone whom might have a clue what they are doing.
>
> Simple problem (I assume): I need to allow unbounded occurrence of an 
> element in the 'root' and following nested levels, but to only if it has 
> not occurred in the same tree before.
>
> For example I have a set of elements in the likes of <b/><i/><u/> and I 
> want to allow 
> <b><i><u>text<u></i></b> and <b><i>I am</><i>very tired</i><b>
>
> but I do not (at all) want two same elements nested: 
>
> <b><b></b></b> (can do) or <b><i><b>HOW?</b></i></b>

This can't be done with XML DTDs, could be done with SGML DTDs
(exclusion exceptions) and can be done with W3C XML Schema but
requires work.  You have to define _seven_ type definitions, call them

noB, noI, noU
noBI, noBU, noUI
noBUI

and define things following this pattern:

 <xs:element name="b" type="noB"/>

 <xs:complexType name="noB" mixed="true">
  <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
   <xs:element name="i" type="noBI"/>
   <xs:element name="u" type="noBU"/>
  </xs:choice>
 </xs:complexType>

It was Michael Sperberg-McQueen who first systematically explained how
to reconstruct SGML's exclusion exceptions with local declarations as
above, but I can't immediately find the reference.

ht
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