RE: Facets

You may be able to achieve what you want using key and keyref: define the
elements in the list of acceptable values as a key, and the elements whose
value must be one of these as a keyref.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
> Farid.Mahini@L-3com.com
> Sent: 15 February 2005 18:58
> To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: Facets
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please pardon me if my question is not very clear. I am very 
> new to the
> XML/Schema language.
> 
> I have an XML document which contains the list of acceptable 
> values (strings
> or enum) for some elements, in addition to the elements 
> themselves.  I need
> to create a schema to validate this XML document. Is there a 
> way to make the
> validation process aware of these facets (on the fly, if you 
> will).  I hope
> the simple XML test file below clarifies my question.
> 
> Thank you,
> -Farid
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Measurements xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="Untitled6.xsd">
>     <Types>	// The values lised under Types are user defined and
> different in XML input files.
>         <Name>Analog</Name>     
>         <Name>Digital</Name>
>         <Name>Bus</Name>
>         <Name>Undefined</Name>
>     </Types>
>     <MeasInfo>		                                
>        // MeasInfo
> is common to all XML input files
>         <Name>Air Flow</Name>
>         <Type>Analog</Type>                              // 
> Type element
> value must be one of those listed under Types element.
>     </MeasInfo>
>     <MeasInfo>
>         <Name>Heading</Name>
>         <Type>Digital</Type>
>     </MeasInfo>
> </Measurements>
> 
> 
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