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Re: Fwd: [katrina-dev] Looking for XML Schema advice

• To: Bill Humphries <bill@w...>
• Subject: Re: Fwd: [katrina-dev] Looking for XML Schema advice
• From: Jeff Rafter <lists@j...>
• Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:14:54 -0700
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>> Is there any other way to allow an element to have subelements in
>> any order, with one of those elements occurring possibly many times?
>> If it isn't possible to express this in XML Schema, that would be good
>> to know too.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.

Hi Bill,

<xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
   [elements]
</xs:choice>

Is your only option in XML Schema. In RelaxNG you can use an interleave 
to accomplish exactly what you want-- but in XML Schema the xs:all 
element is limited exactly as you/Ping have discovered.

All the best,
Jeff Rafter

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