[webbeans-dev] Typing of XML elements

[Pete Muir]

On 17 Mar 2009, at 01:09, Dan Allen wrote:

>
> Therefore, we can increase the "type safety" of the XSD by  
> restricting the category of child elements that can be placed in the  
> class element. However, I don't know how to do this in XSD - any  
> pointers?
>
> Assuming you know all the possible elements up front, this is done  
> with a <xs:choice> and/or <xs:sequence>. However, I suspect what you  
> are saying is that there could be elements that aren't known at the  
> time the XSD is generated.

Yes, I need to restrict the "category/class/type" of elements, not the  
elements themselves. The actual elements which can go there aren't  
known at xsd creation time.

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