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Re: Validate XML selectively

• To: Badri Lakshmiraghavan <lb2628@y...>
• Subject: Re: Validate XML selectively
• From: Eddie Robertsson <eddie@a...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:56:52 +1100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• References: <20011121011623.11284.qmail@w...>

> I'm using MS-XML4 to schema validate XML. Is it
> possible to validate an element depending upon the
> value of another element in XML. For example, if
> <COUNTRY> tag has the value US, <STATE> needs to be
> validated against schema definition for <STATE>. If
> not whatever value <STATE> holds should be let through
> without validation. Is it possible? Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately not with W3C XML Schema. I think you can do this in
RELAX-NG but I'm not 100% sure.

Cheers,
/Eddie

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