BAG element final proposition

Sorry but I did a mistake in my XML schema (second one). Here is the
corrected version of my proposition
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It will be great in the new specification to have a kind of bag element with
the following requirements

1. The order of the elements is not important
2. It can contains predefined elements that must occurs with a given
occurrences (min and max) 
3. It can also accepts any king of others elements (same or others
namespaces) using for example <xs:any> element. 

   <xs:element name="metadata">
      <xs:complexType>
         <xs:bag>
            <xs:element name="identifier" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1"
maxOccurs="1" />
            <xs:element name="subject" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="1" />
            <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
            <xs:any processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         </xs:bag>
      </xs:complexType>
   </xs:element>
   
Here is an instance example:

<metadata>
  <identifier>urn:hsc:1234</identifier>
  <name>Hess Yvan</name>
  <subject>this is the subject</subject>
  <name>Hess Yvan</name>
  <anyOtherElement>blabla</anyOtherElement>
</metadata>


With version 1.0, I tried many possible ways to implement this feature but I
never success. I think I reach a limitation of the W3C recommendation 1.0. I
used for example:

   <xs:element name="metadata">
      <xs:complexType>
         <xs:choice>
            <xs:element name="identifier" type="xs:string"/>
            <xs:any processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         </xs:choice>
      </xs:complexType>
   </xs:element>
   
But in this case it violates the "Unique Particle Attribution". From my
point of view this use case is a real concrete use case that should be
supported by W3C XML schema recommendation in a given way.


Yvan Hess
Chief Software Architect

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Received on Friday, 12 March 2004 04:26:10 UTC