Re: Can an attribute have an alias name?

It seems that this may be implemented with XML Schema 1.1 assertions
(as follows),

<xs:assert test="count(@name | @new-name) = 1"/>

Additionally to such an assertion, I think we need to make sure that
these two attributes need to be declared optional (i.e don't use
use="required" on both these attributes) at level of xs:attribute.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:22 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of our specification documents has changed, and one result is that there has been some renaming of data fields.
>
> We have lots of XML files that use elements with attributes named according to the previous specification document.
>
> In order to avoid editing all of those files, I was wondering whether there was a simple schema change that would allow using old and new names for the same attribute.
>
> An existing element might be:
> <action name="forward" />
>
> Using the new naming scheme, the element would be
> <action new-name="forward" />
>
> But I don't want to allow both "name" and "new-name" in the same element.
>
> The XSL transformation would need to be able to handle both names, also.
>
> (Using the old names for the new data fields isn't a crisis, but it would be nice to be able to use new names as well.  In the long run we could perform a big scripted edit of all the files.  They're under source control, so we'd just get another file version.)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Cook




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Mukul Gandhi