- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:25:03 -0500
- To: nchen@webMethods.com
- CC: w3c-xml-schema-ig@w3.org, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
nchen wrote:
>
> In the schema spec, it says "1.2.4 If the {content type} is element-only or
> mixed, the sequence of the element information item's element information
> item [children], if any, taken in order, is schema-valid with respect to the
> {content type}'s particle, as defined in Element Sequence Valid (Particle)
> (§3.8)"( http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Complex_Type_Definition_details)
> .
>
> So how do we represent <!ELEMENT P (#PCDATA|a|b|c)> in schema?! The order
> and number of child elements are not constrained in XML 1.0
I believe you are mistaken. That syntax is not legal in XML 1.0.
There is a similar syntax that has the property that the
order and number of children are not constrained:
<!ELEMENT P (#PCDATA|a|b|c)*>
(note the *).
This has a straightforward analog in XML Schema:
<element name='P'>
<complexType content='mixed'>
<choice minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'>
<element ref='t:a'/>
<element ref='t:b'/>
<element ref='t:c'/>
</choice>
</complexType>
</element>
>, and therefore
> many industry users have already used this model in their documents. How can
> they easily migrate these documents to schema? Or should we suggest them
> using DTDs for old documents but using schema when create new documents?
>
> All the best,
> Ninggang
>
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