Context Sensitive Element Definitions in W3C XSD Schema?

Steve Batides <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:27:51 -0600
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    I know of know way to achieve this with the W3C schema rec 1.0 and
    I've always assumed it's impossible, but it's been such a pain for
    so long I thought I should at least ask if anyone knew of some
    clever way to achieve it. I havent read the 1.1 rec, but I believe
    it has some sort of context-based defns allowed. Unfortunately, I am
    not in a situation to be using 1.1 with any of our clients, so what
    I can do with 1.0 is all I have to work with.<br>
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    Basically I need to define a hierarchical set of IF/ELSE/ELSEIF
    elements that can be used to contain children, and I need the
    children allowed to be whatever elements are allowed inside the
    *PARENT* of the IF. Because the IF/ELSE/ELSEIF can occur inside most
    elements in the schema, all of which have quite different content
    models, the only way that I know of to support these requirements is
    to allow IF/ELSE/ELSEIF to contain just about anything in the
    overall schema. That is bad for obvious reasons; it allows tons of
    stuff to be populated where it really has no business existing
    because the IF/ELSE/ELSEIF allows so much.<br>
    <br>
    Does anyone know of any way to effectively have an element (in this
    case IF/ELSE/ELSEIF) mimic the content model of it's parent to
    support the requirements above, while only allowing elements that
    really "belong" as 'grandchildren'?
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