- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Oct 2000 08:48:26 +0100
- To: vriezenj@lakeviewtech.com
- Cc: "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
vriezenj@lakeviewtech.com writes: > I'm pretty new to XML, so forgive me if this has been covered before-- I > couldn't seem to find it in the Rec'. > > I see that I can put all sort of constraints on the text contained within > an element (type, length, etc.) but it seems that these constraints only > apply if there actually is a text value present. > > In other words, how do I constrain an element to be required to actually > have text ? minLength=1 only seems to get applied if the element has text > (at which point it can't fail) It should require text, and fail if there is none. That is, <foo></foo> is not valid per <element name="foo"> <simpleType> <restriction base="string"> <minLength value="1"/> </restriction> </simpleType> </element> Have you tried this with other results, if so which validator? 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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