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Re: only one of the element is req but not both...

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Nov 2001 16:51:30 +0000
To: Eddie Robertsson <eddie@allette.com.au>
Cc: "Hanumaiahgari, Srinivas" <Srinivas.Hanumaiahgari@dva.gov.au>, "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <f5bhercrylp.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Re: only one of the element is req but not both...
Eddie Robertsson <eddie@allette.com.au> writes:

> > 1.I got 'dateDispatched' and 'dateDelivered' in my schema and i want to
> > check wherein one of them is required but not both and the other should be
> > empty.
> 
> You can't do this with W3C XML Schema alone . . .

Um, depends on exactly what was meant, but

<xs:choice>
 <xs:element name='dateDispatched' . . ./>
 <xs:element name='dateDelivered' . . ./>
</xs:choice>

should do the job.

ht
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Received on Friday, 30 November 2001 11:51:39 GMT

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