- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Aug 2001 10:26:02 +0100
- To: kboo@ca.ibm.com
- Cc: "Jun Wang" <t-junw@microsoft.com>, "Aung Aung" <aaung@microsoft.com>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
kboo@ca.ibm.com writes:
> > Part II:
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Aung:
> > >> How about this: should this work? (how/why?)
> > >> C:
> > >> <root>
> > >> <element name="a">
> > >> <key name="A">
> > >> </element>
> > >> <element name="b">
> > >> <keyref refer="A">
> > >> </element>
> > >> </root>
> >
> > Priscilla:
> > > No, because the key and keyref have to be defined in the same element,
> > or
> > the key has to be defined in a child element. Neither is the case here.
>
> > ht:
> > Not quite, Priscilla -- since <b> is unconstrained, in a valid
> > instance an <a> might occur inside it, so the above is OK.
>
> Could you give me an example of a valid instance that shows the above is
> ok?
Maybe I'm confused by the picture above -- if that's the schema, then
an instance like this is OK.
<b>
<a/>
</b>
If Aung's picture is the instance, Priscilla was
right, and there's no possibility of reference.
ht
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