Re: [xsl] offtopic: xs:schema - how to declare compulsory presence of either one (specific)string or group of nodes

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-- Tommie


> Hello,
>
> I have one offtopic question about xs:schemas:
> I want to validate xml document that contains some nodes, or information
> that these are missing:
>
> <my_doc>
>   <table1>
>     <item1>text</item1>
>     <item2>text</item2>
>         ........
>    </table1>
>    <table2>MISSING!</table2>
>    <table3>
>       <itemA>number</itemA>
>       <itemB>date</itemB>
>    </table3>
> </my_doc>
>
> That means, I have a list of tables, for each table also list of nodes it
> should contain (with their value restrictions), but sometimes they are not
> present and instead there is "MISSING!" string. Therefore - every table can
> contain either "MISSING!" or specified group of nodes (depending on table
> type - e.g. in the example table1, table2 and table3 are different and may
> contain different sets of nodes)
>
> How to specify this in xs:schema?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Michael


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