- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:11:18 +0100
- To: "'Shlomo Yona'" <S.Yona@F5.com>, "'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> > I had another example where an xsd:sequence with an implied > minOccurs="1" and maxOccurs="1" contains particles with minOccurs="0". > What is the expected behavior when none of these particles > appear in an XML instance? It's quite valid to have a sequence with minOccurs="1" that contains an element with minOccurs="0". Conceptually it means that the sequence must occur, but if all the elements within the sequence are optional, then the sequence is allowed to be empty. Of course in an instance document you can't tell the difference between an empty sequence and an absent sequence, so you might as well have written minOccurs="0" on the whole sequence, but in the grammar they are subtly different. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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