- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 05 Dec 2000 21:01:35 +0000
- To: "Chris Mosbrucker" <chris@proworks.com>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Chris Mosbrucker" <chris@proworks.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to write an xml schema, and am having some problem figuring out
> how to have elements present outside of <sequence> blocks. Every example I
> can find on w3 seems to contain the <element /> in <sequence> tags like the
> following.
>
> <sequence>
> <element name="anyElement" />
> <element name="someElement" />
> </sequence>
>
> But that implies that <anyElement> will always appear before <someElement>
>
> what if anyElement and someElement can appear in any order and number. i.e.
>
> <someElement />
> <anyElement />
> <anyElement />
> <someElement />
See the XML Schema Primer [1]. You want <choice> instead of
<sequence>
ht
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/
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