- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:30:02 +0200
- To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Morris Matsa wrote:
>
> > <!ELEMENT result (level4*,level5*,level4*)>
> >
> > The level4 element is completely optional before and after level5, and
> > level5 itself is also optional.
> >
> > Is there any way to express this without any ambiguity ?
>
> <xs:sequence>
> <xs:element ref="level4" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> <xs:element ref="level5" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> <xs:element ref="level4" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
> </xs:sequence>
No, this was the solution originally brought by Wouter Cordewiner as
bogus and this will be considered as ambiguous since a processor cannot
detect if he is referring to the 1st or 3rd element reference when there
is no level5 element.
Eric
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