- From: John McCarthy <JLMcCarthy@LBL.gov>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:27:44 -0700
- To: W3C XML Schema Comments list <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: Dorrit.H.Gordon@seagate.com (by way of "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@acm.org>)
This seems like an excellent suggestion. Perhaps the tag could be something like "<Any>" John McCarthy At 07:06 AM 8/14/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Hello, > >Per your announcement at http://www.w3c.org/XML/Schema, I have a propsed >requirement for the next version of the XML Schema definition. > >My understanding of the current XML Schema definition is that there are >three ways to include multiple subelements within an element: > >-<all> >-<choice> >-<sequence> > >As I understand it, the <all> tag allows zero or one instance of each >subelement to appear in an element; the <choice> tag allows any number of >instances of a single subelement to appear in an element; the <sequence> >tag allows any number of instances of any of the subelements to appear, but >the must appear in the order defined in the schema. > >My proposal is to add an additional tag (all is the obvious name, but is >already used), which would behave like <sequence> but without the ordering >constraint.
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