Re: dynamic enumeration definition

What about using a substitution group with each member receiving
a different pair of enumerations?

--- Bob Schloss <rschloss@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> W3C XML Schema 1.0 does not permit you to say this.
> 
> You are asking for one case of what are known as "co-occurence
> constraints": depending upon one field's value, the permitted values for a
> different field may be different.
> 
> It is possible that in several years, the W3C Schema WG may permit some of
> this in W3C XML Schema 2.0 (if such a spec is created) because many people
> ask about this.
> 
> For now, you'd have to supplement XML Schema Validation with another
> system, based on technologies like XSLT, in order to enforce your
> constraint.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Bob Schloss
> 
> Scalable XML Infrastructure
> IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center
> Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
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> Hi All,
> 
> I have a very strange problem regarding enumerations. I have 2 fields which
> have enumeration values associated with them. But the problem is based on
> first field's value, the second fields enumeration changes,
> 
> for example let us say I have 2 fields like below with their overall
> enumerations
> 
> field1 - road - {Pedestrain, Cycle Way, Bus-Taxi}
> field2 - carriage - {Single Carriage, Dual Carriage, Single track}
> 
> if field1 is associated with a value of Cycle field2 can have only {Single
> Track and Dual Carriage}
> but if field2 is associated with Bus-Taxi, field can have all of the valid
> values.
> 
> How do I represent such filtered enumerations using XML Schema?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shashi
> 
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Received on Monday, 23 August 2004 22:01:15 UTC