RE: redefining or restricting children of a predefined element

The only way you can do this within XML Schema 1.0 is to have a local
element emphasis within the content model of web, whose own content model is
a restriction of the content model of the global web element.

Yes, that's not a very attractive proposition.

In XML Schema 1.1 you can have the complex type of web contain

<xs:assert test="not(.//web)"/>

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mario Madunic
> Sent: 20 August 2007 16:51
> To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: redefining or restricting children of a predefined element
> 
> 
> Any help with the following will be greatly apreciated.
> 
> I would like to change the emphasis child of web to not 
> contain an instance of web itself. This is the sort of 
> recursion I want to avoid. I've looked at redefine and 
> restriction but seem to be missing something. I do not want 
> to define a new emphasis element within web as it is already 
> defined and want to do the restriction within web itself 
> (<xs:element ref="emphasis" /> and used throughout the schema).
> 
> 
> Here is a copy of the elements in question without the 
> include statements. The child model is much bigger, children 
> have been removed for brevity :) 
> 
> <xs:element name="web" id="web">
>   <xs:complexType mixed="true">
>     <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
>       <xs:element ref="emphasis" />
>       <xs:element ref="imageInline" />
>       <xs:element ref="strong" />
>     </xs:choice>
>     <xs:attributeGroup ref="attributeStandardInlineGroup" />
>     <xs:attribute name="uri" type="xs:anyURI" use="optional" />
>     <xs:attribute ref="target" use="optional" />
>   </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> 
> <xs:element name="emphasis" id="emphasis">
>   <xs:complexType mixed="true">
>     <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
>       <xs:element ref="email" />
>       <xs:element ref="strong" />
>       <xs:element ref="web" />
>     </xs:choice>
>     <xs:attributeGroup ref="attributeInlineGroup" />
>   </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> 
> Marijan (Mario) Madunic
> 
> 
>

Received on Monday, 20 August 2007 21:30:14 UTC