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- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:04:13 -0500
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Hi all, There are 3 things that would make the XML Schema standard even better than it already is. These are issues that are probably the result of the attempt to keep a small footprint for parsers but as the standard matures, so should the parser IMHO. Here they are in order of annoyance; 1) The 'all' function is very limited in its options. I would like to be able to set a maximum amount bigger than 1 and combine 'all' with 'choice' or 'sequence' so that I can control for example that an element has 2 child elements of flavor 'A' and 0 to 4 child elements of flavor 'B' or 'C' in any order. Perhaps the best way would be to replace the 'sequence' and the 'all' groups by a new group 'children' which has a boolean attribute called 'ordered', if set to true the children must appear in the specified order, otherwise they can appear in random order. 2) Extending a complex type should not fixate the order in which child elements must occur (first the child elements of the base type and then the additional elements). 3) Full support of the XPath standard. TIA, Corno
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