RE: General question

It's a bit difficult to see from your example which elements are supposed to
"have the same structure": there are too many ellipses.

There are several ways you can achieve reuse of definitions. You can define
a base type that includes the common attributes, and then define additional
types derived by extension that add different child elements to this base
definition. Or you can make all your element (or type) definitions
independent top-level definitions, but have them pull in named attribute
groups or named model groups for cases where there are shared components.
(It's a bit like the two ways of achieving reuse in an object system:
inheritance and delegation.)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Smoother@gmx.de
> Sent: 02 August 2006 17:28
> To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: General question
> 
> 
> Hello, I'm new to XML Schema. I've already read the Schema 
> tutorial at w3schools.com but I still have numerous questions:
> 
> First, I want to let you know what my XML file looks like:
> 
> <root template="rootpage">
>   <page1 template="journal">
>     <entry1027 template="entry" title="title for entry no. 
> 1027">...</entry1027>    <entryAlpha template="entry" 
> title="some other title">...</entryAlpha>
>   </page1>
>   <another-page template="a-template">...</another-page>
>   <another-page-2nd template="a-template">...</another-page-2nd>
>   ...
> </root>
> 
> 
> As you can see, the file is not strucutred by equal node 
> names (<page /><page /><page />) but nodes with same 
> structure have the same attribute "template".
> So instead of xs:element, I search for a possiblity to define 
> a schema for any unspecfific nodes which have a specific 
> attribute value in common.
> 
> Can somone please give an example?
> 
> - Thanks, S.R.
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> 
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Received on Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:03:54 UTC