Re: Definition of object hierarchies in XML schema

"Prosi, Rainer 4620 PPE-WT" <Rainer.Prosi@de.heidelberg.com> writes:

> Hi Folks;
> 
> I am using XML as a data container and need "object-oriented" data types
> that allow overriding of defaults. The way this is done is that an element
> may contain nested elements of itself, e.g.
> 
> <A att1="a" att2="b">
>   <A leaf="1" att1="aa" att3="c1"/>
>   <A leaf="2" att3="c2"/>
> </A>
> 
> this is semantically equivalent to 
> <A att1="aa" att2="b" att3="c1"/>
> <A att1="a" att2="b" att3="c2"/>
> 
> Is there any way in XML schema to specify that each leaf of the tree must
> have all three attributes att1, att2, att3 but not each individual node ar
> am I forced to simply make each attribute optional?
> Thanks 

In brief, 'no'.  The WG did not implement co-constraints (i.e. this
attr. iff not that attr) in XML Schema 1.0.

ht
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Received on Thursday, 26 October 2000 13:34:43 UTC