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Re: Validation of missing elements in xml:

• To: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@d...>
• Subject: Re: Validation of missing elements in xml:
• From: "Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@g...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:55:16 +0530
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On 4/3/06, Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...> wrote:
>
> Deriving from xs:string won't catch cases where you only have
> whitespaces such as;
>
> <Person>
>        <name>
>        </name>
>        <email>
>                aaa.bbb@x...
>        </email>
> </Person>
>
> If this should be considered invalid (which happens to be consistent
> with the behavior of other datatypes), you should derive form xs:token
> instead of xs:string...
>
or maybe as
	
<xs:simpleType name="mystring">
   <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
      <xs:minLength value="1"/>
      <xs:pattern value="[A-Za-z]{1,}&#x20;*[A-Za-z]{1,}"/>
   </xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>

Regards,
Mukul

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