• To: ricko@a... (Rick Jelliffe)
• Subject: Re: Best Practice - beyond schema
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:40:09 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (Xml-Dev)
• In-reply-to: <02db01c216ad$0c6a1fb0$4bc8a8c0@A...> from "Rick Jelliffe" at Jun 18, 2002 07:46:41 PM

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> 3) Use a different schema language (i.e. RELAX NG) that 
> can change its content models depending on an attribute value.
> (However, I note that if you have constraints where the
> attribute is high up in the document and the variation is low
> down, I think you will need to duplicate all the intermediate
> declarations.)

True enough.  However, that duplication can be achieved by putting
the common part in a separate file and including it twice with
different redefinitions.  XML Schema can do this too, I think.

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