RE: How to get enumeration values in alphabetical order

Oh! That's an interesting piece of info.

Thanks a lot Noah and Mike for your responses.

 

Well What I was looking for is if I write a schema wherein while writing

The enumerations, the values are not in alphabetical order, I thought
they appear

As it is when I instantiate the schema Or it will come in sorted order ?

 

 

Thanks,

Swayam

 

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From: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com [mailto:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:19 PM
To: Swayam Vemuri -X (swvemuri - WIPRO at Cisco)
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org; xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org
Subject: Re: How to get enumeration values in alphabetical order

 


I'm not sure what you mean by "getting" enumeration values.  If you want
to do something like extract them from the schema itself, well schema
documents are themselves XML documents, so you could run a stylesheet
over your schema document.  Are you looking for something like: 

        <element name="container"> 
         <sequence> 
                <element ref="e" type="someEnumeration" maxOccurs="*"/> 
         </sequence> 
        </element 
  

and to insist that the values of e occur alphabetically.  The answer in
Schema 1.0 is no, can't do it.  In schema 1.1, the new "Assertions"
facility would let you put an XPath assertion on the container.  If your
processor supported a sufficiently broad subset of the XPath language,
and if your definition of "alphatbetical order" involves a string
comparision that XPath can easily do, then yes, I think you could
enforce that in XML Schema 1.1. 

Noah 

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/#cAssertions 

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"Swayam Vemuri -X \(swvemuri - WIPRO at Cisco\)" <swvemuri@cisco.com> 
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03/13/2007 09:26 AM 

        
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        Subject:        How to get enumeration values in alphabetical
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Hi, 
  
How to get enumeration values in alphabetical order. 
Is there any way, pl let me know 
  
Thanks 
Swayam