- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:21:47 +0000
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
I'm not sure from your examples exactly what you want, because it's
not clear what's accidental and what's essential. Stipulate that
there's some scoping element 'scope', which is the domain within which
the key is unique. Then I _think_ the following is the closest you
can get to what you want, but it doesn't quite work:
<xs:element name="scope">
. . .
<xs:unique name="tricky">
<xs:select xpath="a|b"/>
<xs:field xpath="@n|@m"/>
</xs:unique>
</xs:element>
This fails because the field selects more than one key in the
<a n='x' m='x'/> case.
Sorry. If you could say a bit more about the element structure of
your documents, it might turn out that there is a solution.
ht
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