RE: Restricting a substitution group using <choice>

Jeni, Dare - thanks for that - 
I've managed to get most of my schemas to validate using MSXML now, 
by judicious adjustment of the order within choice groups.  

But not all of them:  here is another example that seems 
to me /should/ work but MSXML just will not pass 
- I use a <sequence> of two <choice> groups to restrict 
a substitution group whose maxOccurs="unbounded".  
MSXML insists "Invalid particle derivation by restriction".  

Any ideas? 

Here's the test schema:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema targetNamespace="http://xmml.ned.dem.csiro.au/my"
xmlns:my="http://xmml.ned.dem.csiro.au/my"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified"
attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
<!-- -->
  <xs:element name="_Value" abstract="true"/>
  <!-- pieces needed for compositing -->
  <xs:complexType name="ValuePropertyType">
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element ref="my:_Value" minOccurs="0"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
  <xs:element name="valueProperty" type="my:ValuePropertyType"/>
  <xs:element name="valueMember" type="my:ValuePropertyType"
substitutionGroup="my:valueProperty"/>
  <xs:element name="lowerExclusive" type="my:ValuePropertyType"
substitutionGroup="my:valueMember"/>
  <xs:element name="lowerInclusive" type="my:ValuePropertyType"
substitutionGroup="my:valueMember"/>
  <xs:element name="upperInclusive" type="my:ValuePropertyType"
substitutionGroup="my:valueMember"/>
  <xs:element name="upperExclusive" type="my:ValuePropertyType"
substitutionGroup="my:valueMember"/>
<!-- -->
  <xs:complexType name="ValueCollectionType">
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element ref="my:valueMember" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
<!-- -->
  <xs:complexType name="ValueRangeType">
    <xs:complexContent>
      <xs:restriction base="my:ValueCollectionType">
        <xs:sequence>
          <xs:choice>
            <xs:element ref="my:lowerExclusive"/>
            <xs:element ref="my:lowerInclusive"/>
          </xs:choice>
          <xs:choice>
            <xs:element ref="my:upperInclusive"/>
            <xs:element ref="my:upperExclusive"/>
          </xs:choice>
        </xs:sequence>
      </xs:restriction>
    </xs:complexContent>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:jeni@jenitennison.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 March 2002 7:29 PM
> To: Simon.Cox@csiro.au
> Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org; dareo@microsoft.com
> Subject: Re: Restricting a substitution group using <choice>
> 
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
> > * Is it OK to restrict the members of a substitution group
> >     by explicitly enumerating them in a <choice> group? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > * Does a substitution group include 2nd generation substitutions?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > MSXML says e6pContainer is OK, so it appears that second generation
> > substitutions are given the OK; but says e4pContainer has an
> > "invalid particle derivation by restriction".
> 
> The problem is to do with the ordering of the elements in the choice
> that you're using. This is an area where XML Schema is underdefined;
> MSXML has chosen one way of doing it...
> 
> Normally when you restrict a choice with another choice, the particles
> within the two choices have to be in the same order as each other. So
> if you have:
> 
>   <choice>
>     <element ref="e1" />
>     <element ref="e2" />
>     <element ref="e3" />
>   </choice>
> 
> then the following restriction is OK:
> 
>   <choice>
>     <element ref="e1" />
>     <element ref="e3" />
>   </choice>
> 
> but the following restriction is not OK because there's not an
> order-preserving map between the particles in the base type and those
> in the restricted type:
> 
>   <choice>
>     <element ref="e3" />
>     <element ref="e1" />
>   </choice>
> 
> The XML Schema Rec states that you can replace the head of a
> substitution group with a choice that contains one particle per
> member of the substitution group. Starting from:
> 
>   <sequence>
>     <element ref="my:e4" minOccurs="0"/>
>   </sequence>
> 
> It appears that MSXML substitutes the elements in order - first the
> head of the substitution group, then the members of the substitution
> group in the order in which they are declared. So you get:
> 
>   <sequence>
>     <choice minOccurs="0">
>       <element ref="my:e4" />
>       <element ref="my:e5" />
>       <element ref="my:e6" />
>       <element ref="my:e7" />
>     </choice>
>   </sequence>
> 
> and then:
> 
>   <sequence>
>     <choice minOccurs="0">
>       <element ref="my:e4" />
>       <element ref="my:e5" />
>       <choice>
>         <element ref="my:e6" />
>         <element ref="my:e8" />
>         <element ref="my:e9" />
>       </choice>
>       <element ref="my:e7" />
>     </choice>
>   </sequence>
> 
> The second choice is "pointless", so it gets removed, to give you:
> 
>   <sequence>
>     <choice minOccurs="0">
>       <element ref="my:e4" />
>       <element ref="my:e5" />
>       <element ref="my:e6" />
>       <element ref="my:e8" />
>       <element ref="my:e9" />
>       <element ref="my:e7" />
>     </choice>
>   </sequence>
> 
> Note the ordering of the elements in the choice group, in particular
> that the reference to e8 comes before the reference to e7.
> 
> In your restriction for the e4pContainer, you had:
> 
>   <sequence>
>     <choice minOccurs="0">
>       <element ref="my:e5"/>
>       <element ref="my:e7"/>
>       <element ref="my:e8"/>
>     </choice>
>   </sequence>
> 
> With e8 *after* e7. If you swap them around:
> 
>   <sequence>
>     <choice minOccurs="0">
>       <element ref="my:e5"/>
>       <element ref="my:e8"/>
>       <element ref="my:e7"/>
>     </choice>
>   </sequence>
> 
> Then MSXML validates without complaining.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeni
> 
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
>

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