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   Re: XML Schemas: ref'ing vs inlining

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  • From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
  • To: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:11:48 +0100

"Martin Bryan" <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com> writes:

> From
> > 
> > Section 5.13 (schema constraints):
> > 
> > 2  Each of the {type definitions}, {element declarations}, {attribute
> > group definitions}, {model group definitions} and {notation
> > declarations} must not contain two or more schema components with the
> > same {name} and {target namespace}.  
> 
> am I right in inferring that a  valid XML content model of (a, b, c, b) cannot be expressed using a schema?

Don't panic!  Of course you can have such content models.  All that is 
required is that the two 'b' elements have the same type.

ht
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