- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 2002 18:56:01 +0000
- To: "Stuart Brown" <sepenidur@hotmail.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
"Stuart Brown" <sepenidur@hotmail.com> writes:
> I'm newish to XSD, and am having some trouble with converting DTD
> mixed content element into mixed complex types that reference
> groups. Having tracked through the archives I'm kind of getting an
> idea of the problem, but I'm still stuck as to a solution.
No need to apologise -- you have done everything right.
> Say I had a DTD fragment like so:
>
> <!ENTITY % foo "a | b | c">
> <!ELEMENT z (#PCDATA | %foo; | d)*>
>
> and for argument's sake a, b, c are PCDATA only and d implements a
> defined complex type.
>
> The datatype of (PCDATA | %foo | d) reoccurs in other elements, as
> does %foo alone, so I have designed the schema equivalent as follows:
>
> <xsd:group name="foo">
> <xsd:choice>
> <xsd:element name="a" type="xsd:string"/>
> <xsd:element name="b" type="xsd:string"/>
> <xsd:element name="c" type="xsd:string"/>
> </xsd:choice>
> </xsd:group>
> <xsd:complexType name="dType">
> <!-- etc... -->
> </xsd:complexType>
> <xsd:complexType name="zType" mixed="true">
> <xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
> <xsd:group ref="foo"/>
> <xsd:element name="d" type="dType"/>
> </xsd:choice>
> </xsd:complexType>
> <xsd:element name="z" type="zType"/>
That looks fine to me, and it works with your instance with XSV [1].
> Then all string data after the first occurrence of a child element is
> rejected (by XMLSpy) with the message: Text not allowed inside element
> "
> Any advice on how I can reference group/choice fragments in a mixed
> content complex type?
Use a different validator :-). Seriously, this looks like a problem
with XML Spy, unless I'm missing something.
ht
[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv
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