- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Nov 2002 09:26:28 +0000
- To: "Uriel Nusenbaum" <nusen@arnet.com.ar>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3c.org>
"Uriel Nusenbaum" <nusen@arnet.com.ar> writes:
> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified">
> <xsd:element name="XMLMODIFY">
> <xsd:complexType>
> <xsd:sequence>
> <xsd:element name="CUPID" type="cupid"/>
> </xsd:sequence>
> </xsd:complexType>
> </xsd:element>
>
> <xsd:simpleType name="cupid">
> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
> <xsd:pattern value="[a-z0-9A-Z]*"/>
> </xsd:restriction>
> </xsd:simpleType>
>
> </xsd:schema>
>
> when I make the xml, i have 2 ways , one with the CUPID node empty,
> and a second with the CUPID node completed.
>
> If the node cupid is completed i need to validate that the value
> must be minium of four character and maximum of ten character .
You can either use a union of a cupid restricted to the empty string
and one restricted to max=10, min=4, or, if the semantics seems right
to you, just do the length restriction, make the element nillable and
require xsi:nil when it's empty.
ht
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