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Stamatis,
I recommend you check out the "xsi:type" attribute of W3C Schema [1],
which serves such a purpose in an XML instance document.
Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/#xsi_type
Stamatis Karbounarakis wrote:
>
> Hello. I want(if possible) to create attributes that will take as a value
> in the xml file an actual xml schema datatype. Check out this xml
> instance:
>
> <param name="lala" type="xs:string">stamatis</param>
> <param name="lala2" type="xs:int">0</param>
>
> Not only the attribute "type" must be of xml schema type but the element's
> value must be of the same type so for the xml file to be (semantically)
> correct. Is this feasible?The only thoughts I am heaving is to declare it
> somehow like this:
> xsd file
> --------
>
> <xs:simpleType name="XSDTypes">
> <xs:union memberTypes="xs:float xs:int xs:string"/>
> </xs:simpleType>
>
> <xs:attributeGroup name="paramAttributes">
> <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
> <xs:attribute name="type" type="XSDTypes" use="required"/>
> </xs:attributeGroup>
>
> <xs:element name="param">
> <xs:complexType>
> <xs:simpleContent>
> <xs:extension base="XSDTypes">
> <xs:attributeGroup ref="paramAttributes"/>
> </xs:extension>
> </xs:simpleContent>
> </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
>
> Thanx!
> Stamatis
>
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