- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 2001 19:33:02 +0000
- To: Adalbert Wysocki <waldi@imediation.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Adalbert Wysocki <waldi@imediation.com> writes:
> Hi all,
> I have a very simple question but it better to ask experienced people rather
> than write dirty thinks.
> The context is the validation of XML documents using XMLSchema.
> How can I specify that an element must have a fixed value and cannot have an
> empty one.
>
> example:
> -------
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <contract>
> <id></id>
> </contract>
>
> This document is not valid because the element 'id' is empty whereas it should
> be filled with a value and this value equals for example '3000'.
>
> I tryed following:
> .....
> <xsd:element name="id" type="noEmptyElement" fixed="3000"/>
> ....
> <xsd:simpleType name="noEmptyElement">
> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
> <minLength value="1"/>
> </xsd:restriction>
> </xsd:simpleType>
Just remove the fixed="3000" and you'll have what you want.
ht
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