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Well, thank you all.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Amelia A Lewis" <amyzing@t...>
To: "Jason Diamond" <jason@i...>
Cc: <bryce@s...>; <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:00 PM
Subject: Re:  XML Schema newbie - are multiple unordered children
occurrences possible?


> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:07:37PM -0500, Jason Diamond wrote:
> >On 12/2/2003, "Amelia A Lewis" <amyzing@t...> wrote:
> >>On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:42:49AM -0700, Bryce K. Nielsen wrote:
> >>>Sure, no problem:
> >>>
> >>><xsd:element name="ParentNode">
> >>>  <xsd:complexType>
> >>>    <xsd:sequence maxOccurs="unbounded">
> >>>      <xsd:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="A"/>
> >>>      <xsd:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="B"/>
> >>>    </xsd:sequence>
> >>>  </xsd:complexType>
> >>></xsd:element>
> >>
> >>DTD talk, the requirement is (A|B)*
> >>The above yields (A?,B?)
> >>
> >>Not the same.
> >
> >You missed his maxOccurs="unbounded" on his xsd:sequence element. He's
> >describing (A?,B?)+ which probably does fulfill the requirement
> >(although your xsd:choice seems like a more "natural" choice for this
> >particular problem).
>
> Oops.  My bad.  You are entirely correct; I was wrong and read it too
> shallowly and missed that.
>
> Bryce, please accept my apologies.
>
> Amy!
> --
> Amelia A. Lewis                    amyzing {at} talsever.com
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