- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Jun 2001 12:17:21 +0100
- To: "Whitwell, Martyn" <martyn.whitwell@ic.ac.uk>
- Cc: "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Whitwell, Martyn" <martyn.whitwell@ic.ac.uk> writes:
> After much work, I found this sort of xml document could be described by the
> schema:
>
> <xsd:complexType name="typeEmpText" mixed="true">
> <xsd:complexContent>
> <xsd:extension base="xsd:string">
> <xsd:sequence>
> <xsd:element ref="bold" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> <xsd:element ref="italic" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> <xsd:element ref="underline" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> </xsd:sequence>
> </xsd:extension>
> </xsd:complexContent>
> </xsd:complexType>
>
> <xsd:element name="paragraph" type="typeEmpText"/>
> <xsd:element name="bold" type="typeEmpText"/>
> <xsd:element name="italic" type="typeEmpText"/>
> <xsd:element name="underline" type="typeEmpText"/>
Just get rid of the <xsd:complexContent> and <xsd:extension> -- mixed
content doesn't require or allow any specification of the type of the
intermixed text.
> This schema successfully validated the xml document I had prepared.
It shouldn't have, it's not a legal schema doc't!
ht
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