Re: Union of attribute uses

Rahul Srivastava <Rahul.Srivastava@Sun.COM> writes:

> Let me give an example...
> 
> <xsd:attribute name="Attr" type="xsd:string"/>
> 
> <xsd:attributeGroup name="GroupB">
>     <xsd:attribute ref="Attr" use="required"/>
> </xsd:attributeGroup>
> 
> <xsd:attributeGroup name="GroupA">
>     <xsd:attribute ref="Attr" use="optional"/>
>     <xsd:attributeGroup ref="GroupB"/>
> </xsd:attributeGroup>
> 
> Here, the attributeGroup - GroupA, has two attributes, both having the same 
> name, from same targetNamespace, but different use.
> 
> So, how do we compute union of attribute uses in this case, OR, is
> it straight way an error.

It's an error.

To achieve something like this, you need a type definition which ref's 
Attr, and another derived by restriction which makes that ref
'required'.

ht
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