Re: unnamed elements ? | elements with unknown names | <xsd:element name="*"... ?

> Does anyone know if it is possible to have something like this:
>
>                 ...
>                 <xsd:sequence>
>                         <xsd:element name="*" minOccurs="0"
> maxOccurs="unbounded">
>                                 <xsd:complexType>
>                                         <xsd:sequence>
>                                                 <xsd:element
> name="info-a" type="xsd:string"/>
>                                                 <xsd:element
> name="info-b" type="xsd:string"/>
>                                         </xsd:sequence>
>                                 </xsd:complexType>
>                         </xsd:element>
>                 </xsd:sequence>
>                 ...
>
> this should allow to verify the document containes elements with UNKNOWN
> names, but all these elements contain precise content (2 elements, one
> named 'info-a', one named 'info-b').

Unfortunately this is not possible in W3C XML Schema. Atleast Schematron [1]
will support these kinds of constraints and there might be other schema
dialects that can do this as well.

Cheers,
/Eddie

[1] http://www.ascc.net/xml/resource/schematron/

Received on Monday, 27 August 2001 20:42:51 UTC