Adding attributes to lists

• From: Jane Hunter <jane@dstc.edu.au>
• Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:12:12 +1000
• To: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200010230012.e9N0Ckc29972@piglet.dstc.edu.au>

For MPEG-7 implementations, we'd like to be able to specify the 
dimensions of a variable-sized array through an attribute added to a 
list. For example:

<simpleType name="listofInteger">
   <list itemType="integer"/>
</simpleType>

<complexType name="nDimIntegerArray">
  <simpleContent>
    <extension base="listOfInteger">
        <attribute ref="mpeg7:dim"/>
    </extension>
  </simpleContent>
</complexType>

<element name="integerMatrix" type="nDimIntegerArray"/>

<integerMatrix mpeg7:dim="2 4">1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8</integerMatrix>

Is this permissable? The primer explicitly says that you cannot create 
new list types from existing list types - does this include adding an 
attribute to an existing list type?

regards,
jane

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Received on Sunday, 22 October 2000 20:13:08 UTC