On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 11:57 +0000, Pete Cordell wrote: > > Now I would like to create a rule which says for example if the user > > chose the enumerator MY_SPECIAL_TYPE_STRING than the type of "Value" has > > to be "xsd:string". If the enumerator was MY_SPECIAL_TYPE_INTEGER than > > the type of "Value" should be "xsd:integer". And maybe if this is even > > possible create my own type for "Value". > > Better places to ask this sort of question are [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the comp.text.xml newsgroup. You may have to do a > bit of detective work to find out how to subscribe to these.
Nice tip I will have a try. > > To answer your question, you can't use XML schema to do this. (I'm not sure > even if RelaxNG can do this.) > > A more schema friendly way of do this would be to do: > > <xsd:complexType> > <xsd:choice> > <xsd:element name="MY_SPECIAL_TYPE_STRING" type="xsd:string"/> > <xsd:element name="MY_SPECIAL_TYPE_INTEGER" type="xsd:int"/> > <xsd:element name="MY_SPECIAL_TYPE_OF_WHATEVER" type="???"/> > </xsd:choice> > </xsd:complexType> > > Your XML instance then looks like: > > <MY_SPECIAL_TYPE_STRING>MyString</MY_SPECIAL_TYPE_STRING> That's a brilliant idea. Easy to solve and I can use it right now. Thanks for your help! Best regards Stefan
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