- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:02:54 +0000
- To: <john.madden@duke.edu>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"John F. Madden" <john.madden@duke.edu> writes:
> So, let me ask a design workaround follow-up: if I do want to use a
> multifield key, but also want to permit the instance author to omit
> specification of a value of one of the fields in either a key or keyref
> element, then can I "simulate" the above behavior by specifying some
> arbitrary default for the fields, e.g., changing by type declarations to:
<snip/>
Yes, that should work.
> And second, is it possible to make the default attribute equal to a
> length-zero string (e.g. default=""), or would this just be seen as an emtpy
> node?
That should also work -- the empty string is a string value, not a
missing attribute.
ht
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