Re: Substitution groups

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

Ben Ryan <b_ryan@c-elect.co.uk> writes:

> Hi,
> 	I am trying to a schema where I want to model addresses that can handle
> both UK and US style codes e.g. postcode and zip code. I wanted to use
> substitution groups as follows:
> 
> <xsd:element name="code" type="astring" abstract="true">
> </xsd:element>
> 
> <xsd:element name="postcode" type="astring" substitutionGroup="code">
> </xsd:element>
> 
> <xsd:element name="zip" type="astring" substitutionGroup="code">
> </xsd:element>
> 
> where the complex type astring is defined as follows:
> 
> <xsd:complexType name="astring" mixed="true">
>   <xsd:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
>     <xsd:any namespace="##other"/>
>   </xsd:sequence>
> </xsd:complexType>

I don't see a problem with these.

ht
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