Re: [xml-dev] <all> and minOccurs="0" Problem

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

Eddie <eddie@allette.com.au> writes:

> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Radek Wisniewski [mailto:rw@datenknecht.de]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:00 AM
> > > To: Martin Gudgin
> > > Cc: Radek Wisniewski; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > > Subject: Re: [xml-dev] <all> and minOccurs="0" Problem
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, it works fine. But the question remains unanswered: What is the sence
> > > of <all minOccurs="0"> attribute?
> > > What interesting, I can't deklare such en value in any way because:
> > > 1) under <complexType>, element <all> must have both attributes minOccurs
> > > and maxOccurs set to 1
> 
> No, the entire <xs:all> group can be optional as well, i.e allowed values for
> minOccurs on the xs:all element itself is 0 or 1.

Eddie is correct -- the XML Schema WG has agreed a correction here, as 
two different parts of the REC contradict each other on this point,
but the resolution will be that 0 or 1 is allowed.

ht
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