- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:39:00 -0400
- To: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Frank Merrow" <fmerrow@qualcomm.com>, "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
As Mike and others have told you, the markup you're using is not in a style that most XML users would consider idiomatic or best practice (I think that's fair to say.) If you really want to use XSD, and if you know at any given point in time what the set of legal element names is, it's possible that you could write a program, perhaps in the form of an XSL stylesheet, to dynamically generate XSD documents that would validate the particular set of elements that are current. It appears from your example that multiple such elements may share structural constraints. If so, it may be possible to define a set of XSD complex types, one for each form (e.g. for all the wiki elements.) Then your dynamic XSD generator might output schemas along the lines of: <xsd:sequence> <!-- or repeated choice if you prefer --> <xsd:element name="AI00020000" type='faq'/> <xsd:element name="AI00020001" type='wiki'/> <xsd:element name="AI00020002" type='wiki'/> </xsd:sequence> Presuming of course that the complex types "faq" and "wiki" have been suitably defined. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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