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   Re: [xml-dev] XML Schema newbie - are multiple unordered children occurr

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On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:07:37PM -0500, Jason Diamond wrote:
>On 12/2/2003, "Amelia A Lewis" <amyzing@talsever.com> wrote:
>>On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:42:49AM -0700, Bryce K. Nielsen wrote:
>>>Sure, no problem:
>>>
>>><xsd:element name="ParentNode">
>>>  <xsd:complexType>
>>>    <xsd:sequence maxOccurs="unbounded">
>>>      <xsd:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="A"/>
>>>      <xsd:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="B"/>
>>>    </xsd:sequence>
>>>  </xsd:complexType>
>>></xsd:element>
>>
>>DTD talk, the requirement is (A|B)*
>>The above yields (A?,B?)
>>
>>Not the same.
>
>You missed his maxOccurs="unbounded" on his xsd:sequence element. He's
>describing (A?,B?)+ which probably does fulfill the requirement
>(although your xsd:choice seems like a more "natural" choice for this
>particular problem).

Oops.  My bad.  You are entirely correct; I was wrong and read it too
shallowly and missed that.

Bryce, please accept my apologies.

Amy!
-- 
Amelia A. Lewis                    amyzing {at} talsever.com
To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
                -- Laia Asieo Odo (Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Dispossessed")




 

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