- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 2000 16:20:18 +0000
- To: veronique.quiby@epfl.ch
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
"Véro Quiby" <veroquiby@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am working with xmlspy3.5 beta version.
>
> This part my xmlschema validate:
>
> <xsd:element name="Questionary">
> <xsd:complexType>
> ....
> </xsd:complexType>
> <xsd:unique name="uniqueID">
> <xsd:selector xpath="QuestionAndAnswer"/>
> <xsd:field xpath="@id"/>
> </xsd:unique>
> </xsd:element>
>
> <xsd:element name="QuestionAndAnswer">
> <xsd:complexType>
> ....
> <xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
>
> </xsd:complexType>
> </xsd:element>
>
>
>
>
> My problem is when I instantiate an xml file for example:
>
> <QuestionAndAnswer id="1" status="optional" visibility="visible">
> <Question> ....</Question>
> ......
> </QuestionAndAnswer>
> <QuestionAndAnswer id="1" status="required" visibility="visible">
> <Question> ....</Question>
> ......
> </QuestionAndAnswer>
>
> This validate, and this is not what I want because I want unique ID's.
> What am I doing wrong ?
The <unique> declaration as you've placed it says
'QuestionAndAnswer' elements are uniquely identified by their 'id'
attribute within the scope of their containing 'Questionary' elements.
I don't see any 'Questionary' elements in your example -- are there
any, and if so where?
ht
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