- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:38:22 +0100
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- CC: Ian Stokes-Rees <ian@decisionsoft.com>, "xmlschema-dev@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Henry S. Thompson" wrote: > > You can't use the XML Schema language itself to enforce this, just as > you can't say it in a DTD document. The XML Schema WG has taken on > board a request that it be a requirement on XML Schema _processors_ > that they can be invoked in a way which specifies the element > declaration to be used to validate the document element. Can't you design your schema to have only one global element definition ? I reckon that it's a severe constraint, but it could be a workaround if you really wanted/needed to achieve this... Eric > 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/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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