- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Nov 2001 17:02:23 +0000
- To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Cc: Erik Beijnoff <erik@addsystems.com>, "'Lieve Laporte'" <lieve.laporte@uz.kuleuven.ac.be>, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Erik Beijnoff wrote:
>
> > >In this case, wouldn't I have to duplicate everything that is
> > inside the "actions" element? 'Cause that's quite a lot...
>
> > >Regards, Lieve
>
> > Ok, here goes...
>
> > <xs:complexType name="outer">
>
> > <xs:choice>
> > <xs:element name="action" type="actionsWithAccess"/>
> > <xs:element name="action" type="actionsWithSettings"/>
> > </xs:choice>
> > </xs:complexType>
>
>
> No, you can't do this (having two elements with the same name under a
> choice compositor) with W3C XML Schema since it would be breaking the
> famous Unique Particle Attribution rule:
It also breaks the Consistent Declaration rule, which forbids two
elements of the same name but different types.
ht
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