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I know of know way to achieve this with the W3C schema rec 1.0 and I've always assumed it's impossible, but it's been such a pain for so long I thought I should at least ask if anyone knew of some clever way to achieve it. I havent read the 1.1 rec, but I believe it has some sort of context-based defns allowed. Unfortunately, I am not in a situation to be using 1.1 with any of our clients, so what I can do with 1.0 is all I have to work with.

Basically I need to define a hierarchical set of IF/ELSE/ELSEIF elements that can be used to contain children, and I need the children allowed to be whatever elements are allowed inside the *PARENT* of the IF. Because the IF/ELSE/ELSEIF can occur inside most elements in the schema, all of which have quite different content models, the only way that I know of to support these requirements is to allow IF/ELSE/ELSEIF to contain just about anything in the overall schema. That is bad for obvious reasons; it allows tons of stuff to be populated where it really has no business existing because the IF/ELSE/ELSEIF allows so much.

Does anyone know of any way to effectively have an element (in this case IF/ELSE/ELSEIF) mimic the content model of it's parent to support the requirements above, while only allowing elements that really "belong" as 'grandchildren'?

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Regards,

steve...

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Steve Batides

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