Re: help! How to represent relationships and inverse attributes in XML Schema? from Henry S. Thompson on 2000-10-16 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from October 2000)

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Oct 2000 12:07:32 +0100
To: Xin Ye <xinye98@yahoo.com>
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Message-ID: <f5bsnpxxcwb.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

Basically, your problem arises because you're trying to represent a
graph (students<->departments) using a tree (XML infoset).  You have
to use key/keyref to do this, see the Primer [1].

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#specifying Keys&theirRefs
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