Re: Group : Model content and occurence specifications

That behavior seems correct.  I believe that it was thought that possible
occurance constraints on the top level of a group would be more appropriate
on the use of the group (not the definition of the group).  Furthermore,
people disagreed about how to apply two sets of occurance constraints ---
one on the use and the other on the top level collection.  Thus, the spec
forbids one of them.

Your workaround should be just fine.  Personally, I'd rather use a sequence
than a choice, because a one-element sequence seems more natural and clear
to me than a one-element choice, but either should work.

Morris


"Bruno Chatel" <bcha@chadocs.com>@w3.org on 10/04/2001 09:26:25 AM

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Subject:  Group : Model content and occurence specifications



Hi,
I have a validation problem on my schema : maxOccurs attribute
is not allowed on this choice element :

 <xs:group name="blocs.mix">
   <xs:annotation>
       <xs:documentation>...</xs:documentation>
   </xs:annotation>
   <xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
        <xs:group ref="index.class"/>
        <xs:group ref="encadrés.class"/>
        <xs:group ref="inters.class"/>
        <xs:group ref="blocs.class"/>
   </xs:choice>
  </xs:group>

It seems that the error is relative to the explanation
provided in the specification Part 1, end of 3.7.2
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#declare-namedModelGroup

Is it true ?
I do not understand the reason why there is this limitation.

In order to modelize this, is it acceptable to write a un-useful
parent for choice element ?
Something like :

<xs:group name="blocs.mix">
   <xs:annotation>
       <xs:documentation>...</xs:documentation>
   </xs:annotation>
   <xs:choice>
        <xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
            <xs:group ref="index.class"/>
            <xs:group ref="encadrés.class"/>
            <xs:group ref="inters.class"/>
            <xs:group ref="blocs.class"/>
       </xs:choice>
   </xs:choice>
 </xs:group>

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

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