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> How to make the content of an element mandatory in XML Schema??? > For example: > If I have an element "ELEM" of type xsd:string, then the valid values > for this element could be: > 1. <ELEM>some string</ELEM> > 2. <ELEM /> - I don't want this to happen in the instance document. I > want to mandate that there be some > content for this element. How do I do this??? > You could set the minLength facet to 1. <xsd:element name="ELEM"> <xsd:simpleType> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string"> <xsd:minLength value="1"/> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> </xsd:element> -- Bryce K. Nielsen SysOnyx Inc. (www.sysonyx.com) Makers of xmlLinguist, the Text-to-XML Translator (http://www.topxml.com/xmllinguist)
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