- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Feb 2000 09:09:06 +0000
- To: volker.renneberg@acm.org
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Volker Renneberg <volker.renneberg@acm.org> writes:
> Hi!
>
> I've a question about the group definition for elements. Let's say I've
> two types A and B and the following group:
>
> <group order="choice">
> <element name="c" type="A"/>
> <element name="c" type="B"/>
> </group>
>
> In the final XML document, do I have to add the "xsi:type" attribute to
> the "c"-element? Or could I leave them out. Not checking the type of "c"
> results in an ambiguous choice.
That content model is ambiguous, and hence, staying with our SGML and
XML heritage, ruled out. Ambiguity is defined without reference to
instances or types, purely on the basis of names.
ht
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