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"Box, Don" <dbox@d...> writes: > This is actually a bit confusing, but I think I finally have my head around > it (I certainly didn't two days ago). > > If one looks at Section 4.3.3 of Part 1, the description of the {content > type} deserialization rules discusses the EXPLICIT PARTICLE that is > introduced as a parent of most complex type content models. To paraphrase, > unless the complexType's content model is a lone all, group, sequence, or > choice, the model is interpreted as if a compositor has been introduced. In > the case of content='mixed', it is a choice compositor marked > minOccurs='0'/maxOccurs='unbounded'. > > That stated, I believe (but may be wrong) that the following: > > <complexType name='bob' content='mixed' > > <element name='a'/> > <element name='b'/> > <element name='c'/> > </complexType> > > is equivalent to: > > <complexType name='bob' content='mixed' > > <choice minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded' > > <element name='a'/> > <element name='b'/> > <element name='c'/> > </choice> > </complexType> > > This is pretty much the DTD story. If one really wants the "revolutionary > structured mixed content model" that acts like elementOnly but allows > non-whitespace character data, one would have needed to write this: > > <complexType name='bob' content='mixed' > > <sequence minOccurs='m' maxOccurs='n' > > <element name='a'/> > <element name='b'/> > <element name='c'/> > </sequence> > </complexType> > > where m and n are the values that match your expectations ;-) The above analysis is entirely correct, as far as I can tell. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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