- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Apr 2001 10:41:39 +0100
- To: "Ravindra Jain" <ravindra@ltp.soft.net>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Ravindra Jain" <ravindra@ltp.soft.net> writes:
> Thanks for help..
> But again I've some confusion in the para 3.10 of XML Schema : Part 1
> Structures
> in clauses 1.1-1.3 of Validation Rule: Identity-constraint Satisfied clause
>
> Particularly what does the clause 1.3 means :
> "
> 1.3 :For each node in the target node set all of the {fields}, with that
> node as the context node, evaluate to either an empty node-set or a node-set
> with exactly one member. [Definition:] Call the sequence of the values (as
> defined in [XML Schemas: Datatypes]) of those node-sets in order the
> key-sequence of the node"
>
> here how to interpret "evaluate" ?
> and what will be the target node-set for following code ?
>
> <element name="BookCatalogue">
> <complexType>
> <sequence>
> <element name="Book" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
> <complexType>
> <sequence>
> <element name="Title" type="string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
> <element name="Author" type="string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
> <element name="Date" type="string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
> <element name="ISBN" type="string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
> <element name="Publisher" type="string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
> </sequence>
> </complexType>
> </element>
> </sequence>
> </complexType>
> </element>
> <element name="someElement"..>
> .....
> <key name="UNIQ">
> <selector xpath="BookCatalogue\Book"/>
> <field xpath="ISBN"/>
> </key>
> .......
Assuming BookCatalogue is a daughter of someElement, and that you
replace BookCatalogue\Book with BookCatalogue/Book,
every 'someElement' in your instance will have as its target node set
the set of all its Book grandchildren. The Book elements with an ISBN
child will have it value as their key -- the others will be in error.
ht
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