xs:choice and xs:sequence question

• From: David Carver <d_a_carver@yahoo.com>
• Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:37:35 -0500
• To: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
• Message-ID: <43C5263F.1090409@yahoo.com>

I have the following complexType coded:

   <xs:complexType name="ProcessingOutcomeMessage">
       <xs:choice>
           <xs:sequence>
               <xs:element ref="DescriptionMessage" minOccurs="0" 
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
               <xs:element ref="MessageReasonCode" minOccurs="0" />
           </xs:sequence>
           <xs:sequence>
               <xs:element ref="DescriptionMessage" type="Description" 
minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
               <xs:element ref="MessageReasonCode" 
type="MessageReasonCode" minOccurs="1" />
               <xs:element ref="ApplicationReasonCode" 
type="ApplicationReasonCode" minOccurs="1">
                   <xs:annotation>
                       <xs:documentation 
source="http://www.starstandard.org">Contains a software specific 
application reason code.</xs:documentation>
                   </xs:annotation>
               </xs:element>
           </xs:sequence>
       </xs:choice>
   </xs:complexType>

It validates fine if using Xerces J 2.7.0 or XSV 2.5.  However, 
Microsoft's XML, XML Spy 2006 SP2, and Oxygen complain about 
DescriptionMessage being defined twice, even though they are in seperate 
sequence groups.

What I want to do is require DescriptionMessage, MeassageReasonCode if 
there is an ApplicationReasonCode, if there isn't an 
ApplicationReasonCode, then DescriptionMessage and MessageReasonCode are 
optional.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Dave

Received on Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:16:39 UTC