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Title: XML Schema views - are they possible?
>Did you address the problem of
having multiple layers of abstraction and
>the use of global elements that
forces one to use namespaces? GJXDM
>is wrestling with this
one.
My basic use case was a workflow in which an element or
attribute that can't possibly exist at step 1 (e.g. an "arrived" date-time
stamp on data sent from a supplier) is required at step 1 + x. We don't want to
just declare it as being optional up and down the line; we want a validation
process after step x to flag files missing this data.
The approach is to declare everything you'll ever need and
identify where you need it in the central mother schema and then extract what
you need for each step using the stylesheet. It should work in some cases in
which the "views" do not necessarily describe the states of data in a
sequential process, but that was the problem I was focused on. (We've got a lot
of XML data moving through a lot of processes here.) I didn't try pushing it
into a more generalized version of a "view" implementation, so, I'm not sure
about dealing with the multiple layers of abstraction.
Bob
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