- From: Wilde Rebecca L SSgt HQ SSG/STS <Rebecca.Wilde@Gunter.AF.mil>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:04:14 -0500
- To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Received on Wednesday, 6 October 2004 20:10:55 UTC
Hello, I am trying to create a type that allows either a four position numeric or else must be an empty tag. I.E. I want <Tag/> or <Tag>0045</Tag> to be valid, but I don't want <Tag>45</Tag> to be validated. I've come up with the following to try and do this: <xs:element name="Tag" type="TagType"/> <xs:simpleType name="TagType"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:pattern value="([0-9]{4})|[ ]{0}"/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> I'm using XMLSpy to help me as an editor for creating most of my work and validating it. The above will allow me to validate/not validate as I desired, but when others try to use XMLSpy to validate against it as an empty tag, it comes back invalid. Is this a problem with XMLSpy, or is there a different way I should be trying to accomplish my goal? Thank you! Becky
Received on Wednesday, 6 October 2004 20:10:55 UTC