Brilliant - that works fine. Thanks very much, Toby
--- In [email protected], John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tow21_esc scripsit: > > > I want to do something like: > > > > namespace xs = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > > > > element scalar { > > attribute dataType { "xs:integer" }, { xsd:integer } ) | > > attribute dataType { "xs:float" }, { xsd:float} } ) | > > attribute dataType { "xs:double" }, { xsd:float } ) > > > > and have it validate elements that look like either of: > > > > <scalar xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > > dataType="xsd:integer"> 1 </scalar> > > > > <scalar xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > > dataType="xs:integer"> 1 </scalar> > > No problem. Just change the text literal values of dataType to be > QName literals, thus: > > namespace xs = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > > element scalar { > (attribute dataType { xsd:QName "xs:integer" }, xsd:integer ) | > (attribute dataType { xsd:QName "xs:float" }, xsd:float ) | > (attribute dataType { xsd:QName "xs:double" }, xsd:float ) > } > > (I also corrected some syntax errors.) > > -- > "The serene chaos that is Courage, and the phenomenon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > of Unopened Consciousness have been known to the John Cowan > Great World eons longer than Extaboulism." > "Why is that?" the woman inquired. > "Because I just made that word up", the Master said wisely. > --Kehlog Albran, The Profit http://www.ccil.org/~cowan >
