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I could not help remarking: how does OOP come into the picture at all? All
we are doing is expressing regular expressions, using operators such as ?,
*, + etc.. remember that there is a minimal set of regular expression
operators: , | *

a regular expression can be written in many ways.. for example,

(a?, b?)* = (a | b)*

and so on.. main things to note is we cannot write all possible REs w/o
having, choice, sequence, and either * or +

for Max's comment, you do not really need if statements, rather, you can
write the same by "combining elements and attributes"

you can say

A -> a (@flavor='B', B*)
B -> b ()

and so on..

I hope this makes sense??

best, murali.

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Max Chappell wrote:

> I agree. The biggest shortcoming I have trouble with is the lack of any
> if then construct. i.e.
>
> Taking the example you gave -
> You can't say if <ParentNode> has @flavour='B' Then only allow child
> elements of type <B>.
>
> Tall order I know, but something I come up against on a daily basis.
>
> Max
>
> Bryce K. Nielsen wrote:
>
> >The interesting thing with W3C's schema language is that since they've taken
> >a more OOP approach, there are many different ways you can write schemas to
> >validate a specific document, it's all up to your style. What I read from
> >the original poster was a schema that would validate the following XML:
> >
> ><ParentNode>
> >  <A/>
> >  <B/>
> >  <A/>
> >  <A/>
> >  <B/>
> >  <A/>
> >  <A/>
> >  <B/>
> >  <B/>
> >  <!-- and many more -->
> ></ParentNode>
> >
> >The schema I whipped up would validate that instance. My schema is
> >definately not all inclusive though, as you described. I tend to avoid
> >xsd:choice nodes, as is my style, which was why my first instinct was to
> >have a sequence with optional children. I could have easily done a schema
> >with two optional sequences that had one of each node. Or choice too. It's
> >all up to the schema author to decide which practices he/she wishes to
> >follow.
> >
> >Bryce K. Nielsen
> >SysOnyx, Inc. (www.sysonyx.com)
> >Makers of xmlArchitect, the Smart XML Schema Editor
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