On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@gmail.com> writes: > > > Forgive me if this does not apply to XSD 1.1 but contrary to your write > up > > sequence is not a subcase of xsd:all because xsd:all has severe > cardinality > > restrictions in that it is limited to 0 or 1 occurrence which would > > prohibit it's use even where unordered semantics are explicitly desired. > > I _think_ you're confusing constraints on the xsd:all element itself > with constraints on its content. The latter are _not_ constrained wrt > cardinality, as the following example (from section 3.8.4.1.3 of the > spec [1]) makes clear: > > <xs:all> > <xs:element name="a" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="5"/> > <xs:element name="b" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/> > <xs:element name="c" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="5"/> > </xs:all> > > ht > > [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/#all-mg > -- > Useful to know. Glad I took the precaution of expressly excluding XSD 1.1 (the source of your example) from my comment.
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