Re: xml schema Second Edition-regarding substitution group

 
Sir,
    I would like to explain the situation with an example.
   I have a substitutable element  price for the element amount.actually I would like it to work both ways, but  u have mentioned earlier that it is not possible . hence I have a reference to the element amount in "PurchaseOrderType" so that the xml documents can contain the element "amount" or "price" as a substitutable element. 
   In the  complextype "Purchase-Derivant" derived from "PurchaseOrderType" ,i would like to restrict the element amount to type "xsd:positiveInteger". I have explained two situations where it is not possible.
 how can this be achieved?
 
  <xsd:element name="amount" type="xsd:integer"/>
  <xsd:element name="price" type="xsd:integer"
         substitutionGroup="amount"/> 
 
<xsd:complexType name= "PurchaseOrderType">
  <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="shipTo" type="xsd:string" />
      <xsd:element ref="amount" />
  </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>

<xsd:complexType name="Purchase-Derivant">
  <xsd:complexContent>
     <xsd:restriction base="r:PurchaseOrderType" >
           <xsd:sequence>
  	 <xsd:element name="shipTo" type="xsd:string"/>
                 <!-- (1)this will work only if amount is local in base type-->
                 <xsd:element name="amount" type="xsd:positiveInteger"/>
                  <!-- (2) type cannot be specified along with ref -->
                 <xsd:element ref="amount" type="xsd:positiveInteger"/>
           </xsd:sequence>
     </xsd:restriction>
  </xsd:complexContent>
</xsd:complexType>

I also found that declaring element "amount" locally inside the complextype also does not achieve interchangeable of elements.  

"Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

gayathri veerarajan writes:

> I just read the Xml Schema Second Edition .In the section of
> substitution group it has been said that both the head element and
> the substitutable elements must be declared global.

This is not a change.

> If the substitutable element happens to appear in the content model
> of a complexType definition then while deriving a new complex type
> by restriction,this element could not be restricted (by its type) if
> it is declared globally. hence there should be a possibility to
> declare the substitutable element locally also. any comments
> regarding this.

You can reference a global declaration at any point, so there is no
bar to the kind of derivation you describe.

ht
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