Re: content= and model=

"Hewko, Doug" <Doug.Hewko@ccra-adrc.gc.ca> writes:

> I'm just starting to learn schemas, and the tutorial book I have gives the
> following syntax for a container element:
> 
>  <ElementType name="containcerelementname" content="eltOnly" model="closed">
> <element type="containedelementname"/> <element
> type="containedelementname2"/> <element type="containedelementnamen"/>
> </ElementType>
> 
> I checked Roger Costello's schema tutorials at www.xfront.com and the W3 Org
> specs and could find no reference to these attributes. Since I got this
> example from a book that exclusively uses MSXML, I checked Microsoft's web
> site, where I kept on timing out. (I did a search for "eltOnly", "closed",
> "content=" and "model=" all without luck.)
> 
> Can someone please point me to where I can find out what those attributes
> mean and what other attributes are available? For example, since there is a
> 'model="closed"', I can only assume there must be a 'model="open"'.

Your tutorial book is for an old XML Schema language called XML-Data
Reduced, formerly supported by Microsoft.  It is similar in
conception, but different in detail, from the W3C XML Schema
Recommendation.

I'm afraid you'll have to find a new book :-)

ht
-- 
  Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh
          W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team
     2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440
	    Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
		     URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/

Received on Thursday, 6 September 2001 04:35:47 UTC