- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Feb 2003 12:31:31 +0000
- To: Graham Mann <gmann@adobe.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Graham Mann <gmann@adobe.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make a Key that is the combination of an Elements Children's name and ID attribute.
> These will then be used by a Keyref that has two attributes to do the match.
>
> The ID is no problem - but I can't seem to get a permitted XPath expression to return a childs' name as a string.
>
> <xs:keyref name="Element_rRef" refer="Element_ID">
> <xs:selector xpath=".//Pool/*"/>
> <xs:field xpath="@rRef"/>
> <xs:field xpath="@Name"/>
> </xs:keyref>
> This is OK
>
> <xs:key name="Element_ID">
> <xs:selector xpath="./*"/>
> <xs:field xpath="@ID"/>
> <xs:field xpath="{name()}"/>
> </xs:key>
Sorry, the current version of XML Schema doesn't support that kind of
dependence. It is somewhat unusual -- what does your data look like?
ht
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