- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Nov 2000 10:00:46 +0000
- To: Valery Zubovsky <valery.zubovsky@instill.com>
- Cc: "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Valery Zubovsky <valery.zubovsky@instill.com> writes: > Does this schema fragment make sense? > > <complexType name="x"> > <element name="a" type="x"/> > </complexType> > > ... to represent the following structure: > > <a> > <a> > <a/> > </a> > </a> Sorry for slow reply, I've been on the road (at XML Schema meetings :-). In principle, what you have is fine. In practice, you need a bit more to make it completely OK: <xs:complexType name="x"> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="a" type="x" minOccurs="0"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> 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/
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