- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Jun 2000 12:38:37 +0100
- To: Rick JELLIFFE <ricko@geotempo.com>
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Rick JELLIFFE <ricko@geotempo.com> writes:
> > From: Henry S. Thompson (ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
>
> > That's fine, you don't need any new features then: use
> > <any processContents='strict' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/>
> > and xsi:type in the instances and you'll have (nearly) everything you
> > want.
>
> Just for general clarification, is it possible to have an attribute
> (xsi:type or something derived from it somehow) which allows type
> selection from an attribute, but constrained to certain choices?
Not as currently spec'ed. You are specifically forbidden from
declaring the 'type' attribute in the
'http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance' namespace in any schema,
and deriving something from it or its type would not be recognised as
having any special meaning.
ht
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