RE: allowing zero to unbounded elements in any order?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Michael Case
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 5:43 PM
> To: XSD
> Subject: RE: allowing zero to unbounded elements in any order?
> 
> 
> Sorry to beat a dead horse...
> 
> XML Schema, therefore, can only be used to define a SUBSET of 
> legal XML documents, right?

Yes. 

> In other words, a file can be a legal XML file and not be 
> validatable (if thats a word) by XML Schema.

No. Any XML file can be validated by an XML Schema. However it is
possible that there are constraints you'd like enforced on the structure
of your document that are not expressible in W3C XML Schema. 

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Received on Tuesday, 16 September 2003 20:56:15 UTC