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Re: Use xsd to specify multiple instances of existing element

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:10:07 +0100

I think what Andrew is suggesting is something like:

<xs:element name='category' type='categoryType' />

<xs:complexType name='categoryType' abstract='true'>
    ...

<xs:complexType name='privacy'>
    <xs:complexContent>
        <xs:extension base='categoryType'>
            ...

<xs:complexType name='fishingType'>
    <xs:complexContent>
        <xs:extension base='categoryType'>
            ...

This obviously has the problem of requiring the use of xsi:type.  It does
point to XSD1.1's xs:alternative construct being a useful way to go though.
Based on the example in the latest draft just before section 3.3.3, you'd
have something like:

<xs:element name="category" type="categoryType">
  <xs:alternative test="@scheme='http://dig.com/privacy'"
type="categoryPrivacyType"/>
  <xs:alternative test="@scheme='http://dig.com/fishingType'"
type="categoryFishingType"/>
</xs:element>

Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

XSD 1.1 is not even new stuff yet(!), so I guess that is of little help!

HTH,

Pete Cordell
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:40 AM
Subject: Re:  Use xsd to specify multiple instances of existing 
element


>
> Andrew Welch wrote:
>>> So in order to get your constraint you have three choices:
>>>
>>> 1) Adopt  RELAX NG instead of XSD.
>>> 2) Adopt Schematron as well as (or instead of XSD)
>>> 3) Adopt XSD 1.1 (if you can find an implementation) and use their
>>> assertions.
>>>
>>
>> there's a 4th I think:
>>
>> 4) annotate the category elements with an xsi:type:
>>
>> <category xsi:type="privacy" scheme='http://dig.com/privacy' 
>> term='private'/>
>> <category xsi:type="fishingType" scheme='http://dig.com/fishingType'
>> term='coarse'/>
>>
>> ...then just define the types "privacy" and "fishingType" in your
>> schema.
> I suspect that will not work, but it certainly may be worth a try.
>
> To make this work, don't you have to define the <entry> element to use 
> wildcards? For example (loosely)
>
> <element name="entry" >
>      <sequence>
>          <element name="category"> <!-- open category -->
>
>     <xs:any namespace="##targetNamespace"/>
>
> And if you wanted to make the first optional, alarm bells go off that many 
> XSD processors are likely to disallow it (due to quasi UPA implementation, 
> regardless of the standard).
> So you lose the ability to say "the second element must be a category" 
> while gaining the ability to override the schema in the instance.  The 
> trouble with this use of xsi:type is that it really doesn't give you 
> anything in terms of stricter validation or information
> modeling: it lets you get a validation result in spite of the modeling!
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
>
>
>
>
>
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