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Re: Fruitbasket schema question for both W3C/RelaxNG

• To: Manos Batsis <mbatsis@n...>
• Subject: Re: Fruitbasket schema question for both W3C/RelaxNG
• From: jcowan@r...
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:05:12 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Manos Batsis scripsit:

> Consider a fruitbasket element that may contain any number of
> [fruit-name] elements:
> 
> <fruitbasket>
>   <apple color="red"/>
>   <orange color="red"/>
> </fruitbasket>
> 
> 
> I short, I want to allow any element inside fruitbasket, as long as it
> has an attribute with the name "color". I also want to validate the
> attribute value, for erxample it should only allow the colors in my
> enumeration.

No problem in RNG:

color = "red" | "yellow" | "orange" | "green"

start = element fruitbasket {
	element * {
		attribute color {color},
		attribute * - color {text} *
	} +
}

> Any advice or pointers welcome for both XSD/RNG, as I would like to
> offer both in my application.

Unfortunately there's just no way to do something like this in XSD; even
Trang can only translate this into a processContents "skip" wildcard.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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