- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:53:15 +0100
- To: Piccand Régis <regis.piccand@imtf.ch>
- Cc: "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Hi,
Piccand Régis wrote:
> - Is this possible to do that in the actual version of xmlschema ?
It is impossible if you want to use a "type" attribute from your own
namespace, but (almost) exactly what xsi:type has been designed for!
See for instance http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#UseDerivInInstDocs
The problem which you will have is that since xs:base64Binary and
xs:string are both 2 primary types, you will have to use a generic UR
type for the definition of your element and will not be able to control
that other types are not used in addition of those two.
> - If not, is it planned to allow this kind of functionality ?
> - Is it recommended to use "non-standard" schema languages (schematron ??) ?
If you don't want (ot can't) use "xsi:type" instead of your "type"
attribute, yes you can use schematron but it won't be that easy to test
if it's a valid base 64 content with Schematron.
What you can also do is to embed a schematron rule in a W3C XML schema
with xsi:type to check that one of the two allowed datatypes is used.
Another option is to use RELAX NG instead of W3C XML Schema.
Hope this helps.
Eric
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