- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Sep 2001 12:47:05 +0100
- To: Henna Ilvonen <hilvonen@lut.fi>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Henna Ilvonen <hilvonen@lut.fi> writes:
> I'm trying to find a way to allow elements, which are defined to have
> content, to be empty. These elements should be also allowed to have value
> as well, because values are set after structure has been validated, so
> xsi:nil can't be used.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "values are set after
structure has been validated".
If you mean actually using e.g. a DOM interface to change the tree --
well, if you change the [children] property, why not change the
[attributes] property as well and set the [schema normalized value] of
the 'xsi:nil' attribute to 'false'?
On the other hand, why isn't making the content optional sufficient
for your needs?
ht
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