- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Apr 2003 10:51:59 +0100
- To: <daniel.brauer2@img-online.de>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3c.org>
"Daniel Brauer" <daniel.brauer2@img-online.de> writes:
> So is it possible to define a single type "Row" type with an attribute like
> "position" which can be "first"/"middle"/"last" and use it to check the
> content?
The literal answer is "no", computed types/co-constraints are not
supported in general. If you don't mind using the name "xsi:type"
(with an appropriate namespace) instead of "position", then you can do
this. Define types called 'first', 'middle' and 'last', then define
<row> to have a type definition which subsumes all of them, and write
e.g.
<tableName xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<row xsi:type="first">
. . .
</row>
<row xsi:type="middle">
. . .
ht
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