XML schema for ordinal/nominal variables

• From: Christian Setzkorn <christian@setzkorn.eu>
• Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:54:57 +0100
• To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <001b01c6d010$8fcba560$a9d5fd8a@Zoonosis1>

Dear all,

I would like to define nominal/ordinal variables as XML schema. Both types
of variables are characterized by code/string pairs. Here code is a real
number.

Example of the nominal variable Gender:

code/string
#######
1/male
0/female

Example of the ordinal variable Agreement:

code/string 
#######
0/strongly disagree
1/disagree
2/agree
3/strongly agree

My first attempt to define 'Gender' is this:

<xs:element name = "gender" >
	<xs:simpleType>
		<xs:restriction base = "xs:string" >
			<xs:pattern value "0 female | 1 male" />
		</xs:restriction>
	</xs:simpleType>
</xs:element>

Could this be improved?

Any feedback would be very much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Best wishes,
 
Christian Setzkorn
 


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