Re: Interpretation of a choice element

• From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
• Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:16 +0100
• To: Autumn Cuellar <a.cuellar@auckland.ac.nz>
• CC: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
• Message-ID: <1031473925112.20020419095916@jenitennison.com>

Hi Autumn,

> How should the following be interpreted:
>
>   <xsd:complexType name="A">
>     <xsd:choice>
>       <xsd:element ref="B" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
>       <xsd:element ref="C" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
>       <xsd:element ref="D" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
>     </xsd:choice>
>   </xsd:complexType>
>
> Would it be the same as saying
>
> <!ELEMENT A (B? | C* | D*)>
>
> in a DTD?

Yes. You're saying the content of the element A is one of the
following:

  - empty
  - a single element B
  - any number of element Cs
  - any number of element Ds

An element A cannot contain a mixture of B, C and D elements at the
same time.

Cheers,

Jeni

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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/

Received on Friday, 19 April 2002 04:59:17 UTC