Re: XS expressivity problem

Hi Ciprian,

Actually your DTD is not valid, see [1]

<quote 
source="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-element-content">
  For compatibility, it is an error if the content model allows an 
element to match more than one occurrence of an element type in the 
content model. For more information, see E Deterministic Content Models.
</quote>

and further [2]

However, as Tim Bray notes [3] in his annotated XML specification [4] 
this rule will not generally be checked by XML processors.

In general the solution is to write the DTD so that it is deterministic, 
in your case the grammar accepts:
STOCKS
STOCKS, PRICE
STOCKS, STOCKS, PRICE
...
KIT, STOCKS

You can write it as
(KIT, STOCKS) | (STOCKS+, Price?)

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-element-content
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#determinism
[3] http://www.xml.com/axml/notes/Determinism.html
[4] http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm

Best Regards,
George
-----------------------------------------------
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor & XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com


Ciprian Ciubotariu wrote:
> Should I also understand that DTDs are not fully convertible to XML schemas?
> Here's an excerpt of a DTD:
> 
> <!ELEMENT ... ((KIT? , STOCKS) | (STOCKS+ , PRICE , ...))
> 
> and here is an excerpt of the XSD generated with oXygen (I found it in your
> signature)
> 
>         <xs:choice>
>           <xs:sequence>
>             <xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="KIT"/>
>             <xs:element ref="STOCKS"/>
>           </xs:sequence>
>           <xs:sequence>
>             <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" ref="STOCKS"/>
>             ....
>           </xs:sequence>
>         </xs:choice>
> 
> As you can see, it is almost the same situation as above. Or is it that the
> DTD is not valid? oXygen says it is valid, and I have no further knowledge
> on this issue. As a regular expression it is very valid (at least imo)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cipi
> 
> "George Cristian Bina" <george@sync.ro> wrote in message
> news:41121214.90003@sync.ro...
> 
>>Hi Ciprian,
>>
>> > I planned to use the following in a schema: inside an <choice> group
>>having
>> > several elements with the same name but different types. Can I write
>>this in
>> > a schema?
>>[...]
>> > 1. Is this construction allowed by the W3C schema specifications?
>>
>>No, you cannot do this in a W3C XML Schema.
>>See http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#cos-element-consistent for details.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>George
>>-----------------------------------------------
>>George Cristian Bina
>><oXygen/> XML Editor & XSLT Editor/Debugger
>>http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>>
> 
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 5 August 2004 10:34:48 UTC