- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Jun 2003 10:38:30 +0100
- To: Tony Opatha <tonyopatha@yahoo.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Tony Opatha <tonyopatha@yahoo.com> writes:
> I am trying to design a XML schema for a SOAP message body.
>
> I need to design the XML schema for a document that may need
> to be initialized with a XML fragment that may vary with
> different levels of details.
If I've understood you correctly, your best bet is xsi:nil -- this
allows you to validate an empty element even though the schema
requires it to have content.
ht
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