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Composite constraints

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• Subject: Composite constraints
• From: Charles Woerner <cwoerner@e...>
• Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:11:00 -0800
• Organization: Ensenda, Inc.

In XML Schema is it possible to express a constraint such as 
"field1.maxLength + field2.maxLength must not exceed 50 characters"
without constraining any one field to less than 50 characters on it's
own?  The use case is that a client of ours denormalized their database
so that two fields represented distinctly in xml are stored together in
one column within a single inadequately sized column in their database. 
I know there are many solutions to this problem that /don't/  include
Schema, I just would like to know if there is a way to do this through
Schema constraints.

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Thanks,

Charles Woerner
Integration Programmer

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