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Le mercredi 21 juin 2006 à 05:52 -0400, Frank Richards a écrit : > Marielou wrote: > > Is it possible to have unrestricted order and > > unrestricted cardinality? the options <all> <sequence> > > and <choice> dont make this easy. I have implemented > > my schema using <sequence> to enable me to achieve the > > unrestricted cardinality I require but this is not > > what I need as each XML I am validating has a > > different order. Is there some pattern i can use in my > > schema to combine elements to achieve unrestricted > > order and unrestricted cardinality? is there some > > (probably )complex design which could get round the > > limitations? please help! even if the answer is a > > known "no this is most definately not possible with > > the restrictions on XML schema please confirm!" > > > > > I suppose it's cheating to suggest using a DTD: > > <!ELEMENT foo (bar | baz )*> Which in W3C XML Schema is spelled: <xs:element name="foo"> <xs:complexType> <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:element ref="bar"/> <xs:element ref="baz"/> </xs:choice> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> Eric -- GPG-PGP: 2A528005 Have you ever thought about unit testing XSLT templates? http://xsltunit.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (ISO) RELAX NG ISBN:0-596-00421-4 http://oreilly.com/catalog/relax (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ceci est une partie de message=?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?=
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