- From: Rahul Srivastava <Rahul.Srivastava@Sun.COM>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:35:02 +0000 (Asia/Calcutta)
- To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
- Cc: jhallett@mail.colgate.edu
Hi Joe,
> Joe Hallett wrote...
>
> I am trying to specify that the contents of my "UniqueID" element is unqiue
> for every occurance of the element.
>
> My problem is that the instance doc validates against the schema no matter
> what the contents of "UniqueID" are. When I enter identitcal values for each
> element, such as <UniqueID>a</UniqueID> and <UniqueID>a</UniqueID>, the
> instance doc is validated. Obviously, I dont want this to happen.
>
> Here is a portion of my schema:
>
> <element name="Facts" type="fac:FactsType"/>
>
> <complexType name="FactsType">
> <sequence>
> <element name="Fact" type="fac:FactType" maxOccurs="unbounded">
> <unique name="factID">
> <selector xpath="Fact"/>
> <field xpath="UniqueID"/>
> </unique>
> </element>
> </sequence>
> </complexType>
That's a problem!. The unique is declared in element 'Fact' and the xpath for
selector is also 'Fact'. So, the set of elements selected by selector is a
single node 'Fact'. Hence the uniqueness is not enforced.
But then, is my schema not valid or why do I not get any error??, you may think
that!. Well, the spec is not very clear on this and allows the context node to
be selected using the selector, which results a single node in the target node
set. So, how do you enforce uniqueness in a single node. A point to be addressed
by the spec.
Your schema is valid, but to enforce the uniqueness, you have to declare the
unique in the parent of 'Fact' element, so that the selector xpath can select a
set of 'Fact's and can enforce uniqueness in a set of 'Fact's:
<element name="Facts" type="fac:FactsType">
<unique name="factID">
<selector xpath="./fac:Fact"/>
<field xpath="fac:UniqueID"/>
</unique>
</element>
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Rahul.
Received on Sunday, 21 April 2002 02:12:59 UTC