RE: XML Schema question: A <xs:choice> equivalent for attributes?

Else just use elements. 
Why does XML have the choice of element or attribute, anyway ;-) 


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-----Original Message-----
From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Michael Kay
Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 12:22
To: 'youhaodeyi'; xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Subject: RE: XML Schema question: A <xs:choice> equivalent for attributes?


It's a well-known limitation of XSD 1.0 that you can't do this.

It's easy in XSD 1.1, but most processors don't support that yet.  (Saxon
does support a sufficient subset, however).

Regards,

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

Received on Friday, 28 August 2009 13:16:38 UTC