Hi,
I have searched the XML-dev archives as well as the UBL 1.0
specification and CodeList Representation paper and can’t find a good
solution to my problem, so I thought I’d ask for any suggestions out
there.
I am trying to create a very flexible schema for a public Event for which I’d
like people to be able to redefine certain types into enumerated lists when
they use the schema. It seems that this means the types must be simpleTypes,
since only simpleTypes can be restricted into enumerations. However, I’d
also like these types to have an attribute that will allow the user of the
schema to indicate what language the content of the element (which will
eventually use the type) is in. It seems that this is impossible, as simpleTypes
cannot have attributes. UBL 1.0 seems to have a way of attaching this meta-data
to an enumerated list/codelist (involving the creation of both a simpleType to
hold the enumeration values, and a complexType to hold “supplementary
components”—the metadata about the codelist), but it seems too
complicated for my purposes as I really only have one attribute I want to use.
Doesn’t anyone else out there ever want to create an
enumerated list that has an attribute attached to it? Am I missing something simple
or is this a difficult problem?
Allison Bloodworth
Principal Administrative Analyst
e-Berkeley Program Office
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
abloodworth@berkeley.edu
