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Re: ( A or B ) or both

From: George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:20:50 +0200
Message-ID: <418F4882.7020809@oxygenxml.com>
To: Frans Englich <frans.englich@telia.com>
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Re: ( A or B ) or both

Hi Frans,

> For an XML Schema complexType, I would like to specify such that it must 
> contain either of the elements A or B, but it /may/ also contain them 
> both(but at a minimum must A or B be there). In other words, I'm talking 
> about a logical OR. 
> 
> How is this done? If i put minOccurs="0" on A and B, that allows none of them 
> to be there. Somehow must the relation between the two be expressed.

(a, b?) | (b, a?)

> BTW, for another Schema of mine, I need to allow XHTML markup in some 
> elements, in a way possible to validate. Should I simply reference the 
> "block" element group in XHTML 1.0's XSD?

I guess you can use a wildcard model here to specify any element from 
the XHTML namespace. Setting processContents to strict will force the 
validation to be applied on the XHTML content.

Hope that helps,
George
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George Cristian Bina
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Received on Monday, 8 November 2004 10:18:56 GMT

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