This
is more of a general Schema question, but what you probably want to do
is use the key/keyref mechanism, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#specifyingKeysAndtheirRefs .
That of course would work only if every rule has a name and all rule names are
unique.
You
won't be able to use restriction for this, since restriction has no way of
constraining the contents of the restricted type "dynamically" based on values
from the instance documents.
Radu
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Favero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: XSD QuestionI am trying to setup a schema that has some restrictions.
The first section of the schema has rules
<rules>
<rule>
<name>rule1</name>
<data> …</data>
</rule>
<rule>
<name>rule2</name>
<data>….</data>
</rule>
</rules>Now the question … I have another section that references these rules.
How do I define the restriction so that elements in this section can
only reference rules that exist??<calendars>
<calendar>
<name>calendar1</name>
<rules>
<rule>rule1</rule>
<rules>
</calendar></calendars>
Joseph Favero
President, Obsidian Solutions, Inc.
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