RE: [xml-dev] generate common xml shema from multiple xml instances

["Paul Spencer" <xml-dev-list@boynings.co.uk>]

True :-). I blame a late night last night. So ignore my last post.

XML generated an xs:choice for that example.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Cristian Bina [mailto:george@oxygenxml.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:55 AM
> To: Paul Spencer
> Cc: 'Mukul Gandhi'; 'Rita Shen'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] generate common xml shema from multiple xml
> instances
> 
> Paul Spencer wrote:
> > [...] The complexity of the tool goes up markedly with more than one
> instance. For example, how would you handle this:
> >
> > Instance 1
> > <a>
> >   <b/>
> >   <c/>
> > </a>
> >
> > Instance 2
> > <a>
> >   <b/>
> >   <d/>
> > </a>
> > [...]
> 
> There is no complexity difference between that and extracting the
> schema
> from a document that wraps all of them in a root element, in your
> example that will be:
> 
> <wrapper>
>    <a>
>      <b/>
>      <c/>
>    </a>
>    <a>
>      <b/>
>      <d/>
>    </a>
> </wrapper>
> 
> Best Regards,
> George
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