- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:38:06 -0400
- To: Thomas Solbjør <thomas.solbjor@strath.ac.uk>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Thomas Solbjør asks: >> Does the XML Instance document support elements within >> an element with: mixed="true"? >> I'm thinking about formatting elements such as "<b>", >> "<h1>" etc. Not sure which of two sorts of nesting you mean: <a> <b>Maybe some text here?</b> <a/> Is supported, but does not involve "mixed content". You have a declaration along the lines of: <xsd:element name="a"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element ref="b"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> If you mean nested in text then you do use mixed content: <a>This text has <b>mixed</b> content <a/> <xsd:element name="a"> <!-- allow content to be mixed into text --> <xsd:complexType mixed="true"> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element ref="b"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> As noted in an earlier reply, the way schema implements mixed is that it ignores the text children of <a> and validates as if the instance were: <a><b>mixed</b><a/> So, you get all the flexibility of sequences, choices, etc., but interspersed into text if you like. Hope this helps. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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