Re: Need something like xs:sequence without order?

Thank you for your reply.

In schema 1.0:
>
>        <xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
>                <xsd:element ref="A" />
>                etc.
>           ....references to A,B,C
>

This is quite exacly what I am doing right now as a workaround.. with the
downsides you describe.


> In schema 1.1:
>
>        <xsd:all>
>                <xsd:element ref="A" />
>                [...]
>                <xsd:element ref="D" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="2>
>
> In other words, in schema 1.0, you can use choice, but you don't get to
> tightly control the number of occurrences of each named element.   Schema
> 1.1 can do the same, but it also allows you to use <xsd:all> with explicit
> occurrence counts.  That could enforce, for example, that you wanted at
> most two "D" elements, regardless of order with respect to the others.
> Note that XSD 1.1 is still in Candidate Recommendation status and is not
> yet widely deployed.
>
>
Do you know if there is any validating SAX parser for java that supports
Schema 1.1? I would like to give it a try.

Thanks for your help,

Felix


>
>
> Felix Nensa <nensa@zeec.biz>
> Sent by: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org
> 01/28/2010 12:04 PM
>
>        To:     xmlschema-dev@w3.org
>        cc:     (bcc: Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM)
>        Subject:        Need something like xs:sequence without order?
>
>
> Hi experts,
>
> I have some tricky XML that needs to be validated against an XSD, that I
> am not sure how to define.
> The XML could come in several variations. Some examples:
>
> Example 1:
>
> <SomeElement>
>  <A>aaa</A>
>  <B>bbb</B>
>  <C>ccc</C>
>  <D>ddd</D>
>  <D>dde</D>
> </SomeElement>
>
> Example 2:
>
> <SomeElement>
>  <B>bbb</B>
>  <A>aaa</A>
>  <C>ccc</C>
>  <D>ddd</D>
>  <D>dde</D>
> </SomeElement>
>
> Example 3:
>
> <SomeElement>
>  <B>bbb</B>
>  <A>aaa</A>
>  <D>ddd</D>
>  <D>dde</D>
> </SomeElement>
>
>
> The corresponding XSD that I would like to define (but of course is
> invalid) would look like this:
>
> <xs:element name="SomeElement">
>  <xs:complexType>
>    <xs:all>
>     <xs:element name="A" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" />
>     <xs:element name="B" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" />
>     <xs:element name="C" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"
> />
>     <xs:element name="D" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1"
> maxOccurs="unbounded" />
>
>    </xs:all>
>  </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
>
> Any ideas how to achive the same with valid XSD?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Felix
>
>