Re: Conditional type definition

Hi Ralph,

You can't do conditional type assignment with XSD 1.0.  The upcoming XSD 1.1
will allow conditional type assignment but that is still work in progress.

The closest you can get in XSD 1.0 is to put the conditionality into an
xs:choice of possible elements so you have:

<aTypeOneElement>
   <ONEelement />
</aTypeOneElement>

<aTypeTwoElement>
   <TWOelement />
</aTypeTwoElement>

Or define a type that is allows both ONEElement and TWO element and check
the constraint at the application level.

HTH,

Pete Cordell
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Kutschera" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:44 PM
Subject: XSD: Conditional type definition


>
> Dear list,
>
>   I'm relatively new to XSD and would like to perform the following:
>
>
> I have an XML-element like this:
> <anElement type="ONE">
>   <ONEelement />
> </anElement>
>
> <anElement type="TWO">
>   <TWOelement />
> </enElement>
>
> So there is the "anElement" and depending on its type the subelements are
> different. Is there a way to declare this behaviour with XSD?
>
> TIA,
>   Ralph
>
>
>