RE: Restricted element content

I thought that. Thank you Pete and Michael for your expert answers.

-Vity

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Cordell [mailto:petexmldev@codalogic.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:00 PM
> To: Vity; xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Restricted element content
> 
> Sadly the best you can do with this is define a complex type 
> with complex 
> content that is mixed.  You have no control over the type of 
> TEXT data 
> within the mixed content, or even where it is placed.
> 
> I've often thought it would be nice to have an xs:text 
> element that was 
> analogous to an xs:element, but didn't have start and end 
> tags.  You could 
> then do:
> 
> <xs:complexType name='fooType'>
>     <xs:sequence>
>         <xs:text type='xs:int'/>
>         <xs:element name='bar1'/>
>         <xs:element name='bar2'/>
>     </xs:sequence>
>     <xs:attribute name='atr1' type='xs:string'/>
> </xs:complexType>
> 
> But I've never sat down and thought through the implications 
> of this so have 
> never formally proposed it.  I would be interested to hear 
> whether anybody 
> else has thought it through though.
> 
> Interestingly (or otherwise) a complex type with simple 
> content could be 
> expressed as:
> 
> <xs:complexType name='fooType'>
>     <xs:sequence>
>         <xs:text type='xs:int'/>
>     </xs:sequence>
>     <xs:attribute name='atr1' type='xs:string'/>
> </xs:complexType>
> 
> and I wonder whether that could simplify the specs.
> 
> Anyway HTH,
> 
> Pete Cordell
> Codalogic Ltd
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Vity" <vitywap@seznam.cz>
> To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:17 PM
> Subject: Restricted element content
> 
> 
> >
> > Hello,
> > I have very simple question, but I cannot find a solution for this.
> > I would like to create XSD, which would describe following 
> piece of XML:
> > <foo atr1="some restricted attribute">
> >  --limited string length (or eg. positive integer)-- 
> >  <bar1 />
> >  <bar2 />
> > </foo>
> >
> > =element with an attribute which contains restricted 
> content and other
> > elements.
> >
> > I have no problem to describe the XML without "bar" 
> elements, but it seems
> > to have no solution with them.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > -Vity
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> 
>

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