- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 18:31:11 +0100
- To: Stuart Gilbert <Stu@Better.Domain.Name>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Stuart Gilbert <Stu@Better.Domain.Name> writes:
> I've been trying desperately to create a schema that will validate my
> elements in any order inside the root element, while maintaining an
> individual maxOccurs for each of them.
W3C XML Schema cannot enforce such a constraint.
If order doesn't matter, pick an order and enforce it.
Both human authors and machines have no trouble with such discipline,
_and_ it makes the resulting documents easier to read.
ht
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