- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 02 Jul 2002 23:12:08 +0100
- To: John Verhaeg <jverhaeg@metamatrix.com>
- Cc: "XML Schema Mailing List (E-mail)" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
John Verhaeg <jverhaeg@metamatrix.com> writes:
> Also, just to confirm, it appears you are actually saying that there is no
> real difference between not redeclaring an element in a restricting subtype
> (assuming it's not required) vs. redeclaring it with maxOccurs=0 (although
> there'd probably be no reason to actually choose this alternative).
> Correct?
Correct. The REC says [1], wrt xs:element, "(unless
minOccurs=maxOccurs=0, in which case the item corresponds to no
component at all)".
ht
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#declare-element
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