Re: Paper submission due!! please help!! Restriction with substitution???

Hi Joey,

> I read in this list that this first example is OK, but is there a
> way to do this with a type other than "any". Instead of any, I would
> like my own type, then I would like to substitute derived types as
> is done here. My example is after the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, and
> I hope it is valid.

I'm afraid that what you have definitely isn't valid. When you do a
restriction, elements that are valid according to the restricted type
must also be valid according to the base type. In your case, if you
had:

  <foo>
    <e1 />
  </foo>

which is valid according to your newtype:

> <complexType name="newtype">
>   <complexContent>
>     <restriction base="my:basetype">
>       <sequence>
>         <element name="e1" type="myTypeRestriction"/>
>         <element name="e2" type="myTypeRestriction2" minOccurs="0"/>
>         <element name="e3" type="myTypeRestriction3" minOccurs="0"/>
>       </sequence>
>     </restriction>
>   </complexContent>
> </complexType>

it wouldn't be valid according to your base type, which only allows
'item' elements within the element:

> <complexType name="basetype">
>   <sequence>
>     <element name="item" type="myType" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>   </sequence>
> </complexType>

The reason that you can do the restriction with the xs:any wildcard
is that the base type then allows any element.

What you could do, however, is create a substitution group for the
four elements, with 'item' as the head element. The elements have to
be declared globally, as follows:

<element name="item" type="myType" />
<element name="e1" type="myTypeRestriction" substitutionGroup="item" />
<element name="e2" type="myTypeRestriction2" substitutionGroup="item" />
<element name="e3" type="myTypeRestriction3" substitutionGroup="item" />

[Note that myTypeRestriction must be derived from MyType.]

You can then define your base type by referring to that item element:

<complexType name="basetype">
  <sequence>
    <element ref="item" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
  </sequence>
</complexType>

and likewise your newtype by referring to the global declarations of
the other elements:

<complexType name="newtype">
  <complexContent>
    <restriction base="my:basetype">
      <sequence>
        <element ref="e1" />
        <element ref="e2" minOccurs="0"/>
        <element ref="e3" minOccurs="0"/>
      </sequence>
    </restriction>
  </complexContent>
</complexType>

This works because if you take account of the substitution group, the
basetype type definition is equivalent to:

<complexType name="basetype">
  <sequence>
    <choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
      <element ref="item" />
      <element ref="e1" />
      <element ref="e2" />
      <element ref="e3" />
    </choice>
  </sequence>
</complexType>

Cheers,

Jeni

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Jeni Tennison
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Received on Wednesday, 13 March 2002 07:30:52 UTC