Re: attemting to create a mutli-type element

"London ." <epsilonknot@hotmail.com> writes:

<snip/>

> [B]ut what i would like to do is have an xsd that could be used to
> validate this:
>
> <data>
>   <value dt="int">1</value>
>   <value dt="string">hello</value>
> </data>


If you control the document, then spell it like this:

<data xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <value xsi:type="xs:int">1</value>
   <value xsi:type="xs:string">hello</value>
</data>

and you'll have what you want.

ht
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