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Re: Generating Trees from XML Schema

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: Generating Trees from XML Schema
• From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:45:20 -0600
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You want to enumerate all possible productions? So an element with three 
optional attributes would have eight (2^n) productions? That's a long list!

Bob Foster
http://www.xmlbuddy.com/

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> o A two level list of all possible productions.
> o To enable the user to assign an ID to each production.
> 
> For some schemas that will be a very long list.  The 
> meaningfulness is a real problem.
> 
> len
> 
> From: Bob Foster [mailto:bob@o...]
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what would you use it for? Some elements and 
> attributes aren't meaningful "regardless of structure".
> 
> Also, a couple of other people seem to understand what you want the 
> output would look like (though they appear to have different 
> understandings), but I don't. What is it, two lists, one titled 
> "Elements" and the other "Attributes"? Are there attributes listed for 
> each element? If so, and an element had an <anyAttribute>, would all the 
> applicable attributes be listed, as well?

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