- From: Scott Lawrence <slawrence@pingtel.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:52:02 -0500
- To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
- Message-Id: <1104868322.3105.111.camel@sukothai.pingtel.com>
I'm trying to develop a schema for an existing XML usage (for which no
schema or DTD was ever written before). I've run into a case that I
can't get Xerces-C to validate, and am not sure whether my schema
construction or the parser validation is the problem. I've put together
a simplified version ...
The short statement of the problem is that I have an element 'address'
whose content may be either the single element 'url' or any combination
of the elements 'user', 'host', and 'qual'. I tried to express this as:
<group name='parts'>
<all>
<element ref='dmp:user' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
<element ref='dmp:host' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
<element ref='dmp:qual' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
</all>
</group>
<element name='address'>
<complexType>
<choice>
<group ref='dmp:parts'/>
<element ref='dmp:url'/>
</choice>
</complexType>
</element>
When I try to validate a document against the above (using either
xerces-c version 2.5 or 2.6), I get:
======
> DOMCount -v=always -s -f -n either.xml
Error at file file:///home/lawrence/tmp/groupall/either.xsd, line 24,
char 35
Message: A group whose content is 'all' must only appear as the
content type of a complex type definition.
======
Should the above work? Is there a (better) way to accomplish what I'm
after? (I attached a complete version of the above schema, and what I
think should be a valid instance)
--
Scott Lawrence
Consulting Engineer
Pingtel Corp.
http://www.pingtel.com/
+1.781.938.5306 x162
Attachments
- text/xml attachment: either.xsd
- text/xml attachment: either.xml
Received on Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:48:34 UTC