- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Apr 2001 08:24:35 +0100
- To: Tom Welch <twelch@fastlinepub.com>
- Cc: "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Tom Welch <twelch@fastlinepub.com> writes: > Is the following element guaranteed to create one and only one node when the > node is not explicitly defined in the document using this schema? > > <element name="one" type="decimal" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="3" default="1"/> Element defaults are not like attribute defaults, in part because of occurrence range issues. The above construct will _never_ create an element node -- it will simply fill in the value 1 for any _empty_ element in the schema-processed infoset, e.g. <one>234</one> <one/> <one>432</one> will have the same PSVI as <one>234</one> <one>1</one> <one>432</one> 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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