RE: [xml-dev] Fruitbasket schema question for both W3C/RelaxNG

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

SCHEMA: 
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
   targetNamespace="http://www.example.com/fruitbasket"; 
   xmlns:tns="http://www.example.com/fruitbasket";>

	<xs:element name="fruitbasket">
	  <xs:complexType>
	    <xs:sequence>
	      <xs:element ref="tns:placeHolder" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
	    </xs:sequence>
	  </xs:complexType>
	</xs:element>

	<xs:element name="placeHolder" type="tns:hasColor"
abstract="true" />
	<xs:element name="orange" type="tns:hasColor"
substitutionGroup="tns:placeHolder"  />
	<xs:element name="apple" type="tns:hasColor"
substitutionGroup="tns:placeHolder"  />

	  <xs:complexType name="hasColor">
	    <xs:attribute name="color" type="tns:color" />
	  </xs:complexType>

	  <xs:simpleType name="color">
	    <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
	      <xs:enumeration value="red" />
	      <xs:enumeration value="green" />
	      <xs:enumeration value="purple" />
	      <xs:enumeration value="yellow" />	      
	    </xs:restriction>
	  </xs:simpleType>
</xs:schema>

INSTANCE: 
<fruitbasket xmlns="http://www.example.com/fruitbasket";>
   <apple color="red"/>
   <orange color="red"/>
</fruitbasket>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Manos Batsis [mailto:mbatsis@netsmart.gr] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:26 AM
>To: XML Dev
>Subject: [xml-dev] Fruitbasket schema question for both W3C/RelaxNG
>
>[resending from the right email account this time]
>
>A good subject line would be "how to validate complex type 
>instance with uknown element name".
>
>Consider a fruitbasket element that may contain any number of 
>[fruit-name] elements:
>
><fruitbasket>
>   <apple taste="red"/>
>   <orange taste="red"/>
></fruitbasket>
>
>
>I short, I want to allow any element inside fruitbasket, as 
>long as it has an attribute with the name "color". I also want 
>to validate the attribute value, for erxample it should only 
>allow the colors in my enumeration.
>
>Can anyone please share his/her lights here? Using
>
><xs:any namespace="##targetNamespace" processContents="strict"/>
>
>does not work, while
>
><xs:any namespace="##targetNamespace" processContents="lax"/>
>
>does not signal for invalid elements inside the fruitbasket at all.
>
>Any advice or pointers welcome for both XSD/RNG, as I would 
>like to offer both in my application.
>
>Manos
>
>
>
>
>
>
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