RE: <xsd:sequence> required?

I've asked this before, but don't recall seeing an answer:

Is the design pattern of an unbounded choice extensible? 

If I extend a type that contains an unbounded choice element and specify
that the extended type also contains an unbounded choice element, would the
behavior be 

1) a full combination of the two sets of elements, appearing in any order,
or

2) two separate choice subsets with elements in each subset appearing in any
order


Extensibility of this pattern could be an important design criterion.

Thanks,

Mark


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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Eddie Robertsson [mailto:erobertsson@allette.com.au] 
Sent:	Monday, February 11, 2002 7:01 AM
To:	xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Cc:	xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Subject:	Re: <xsd:sequence> required?

> What I want to be able to say with the following piece of code is that
> one can use the mentioned elements any number of times and in any order.
>
>    <xsd:complexType name="ModelType">
>      <xsd:element ref="cellml:units" minOccurs="0
> maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>      <xsd:element ref="cellml:component" minOccurs="0"
>        maxOccurs="unbounded" />
>      <xsd:element ref="cellml:group" minOccurs="0"
>        maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>      <xsd:element ref="cellml:connection" minOccurs="0"
>        maxOccurs="unbounded" />
>      <xsd:element ref="rdf:RDF" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
>      <xsd:attribute ref="cellml:name" use="required" />
>      <xsd:attribute ref="cmeta:id" use="optional" />
>    </xsd:complexType>
>
> Since the children elements can be in any order, the <xsd:sequence>
> element is not useful.  Neither are the <xsd:choice> and <xsd:all>.  Is
> it necessary that I use one of them in this case?

Yes, you always need to have one of sequence, all or choice specified. Since
you want all elements to appear any number of times and in any order you can
add minOccurs="0" and maxOccurs="unbounded" to the choice element itself.
So, you would have:

   <xsd:complexType name="ModelType">
    <xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
     <xsd:element ref="cellml:units" minOccurs="0
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
     <xsd:element ref="cellml:component" minOccurs="0"
       maxOccurs="unbounded" />
     <xsd:element ref="cellml:group" minOccurs="0"
       maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
     <xsd:element ref="cellml:connection" minOccurs="0"
       maxOccurs="unbounded" />
     <xsd:element ref="rdf:RDF" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xsd:choice>
    <xsd:attribute ref="cellml:name" use="required" />
    <xsd:attribute ref="cmeta:id" use="optional" />
   </xsd:complexType>

Cheers,
/Eddie

Received on Tuesday, 12 February 2002 09:42:00 UTC