Re: [xsl] XML schema: require a descendant?

Subject: Re: [xsl] XML schema: require a descendant?
From: "Wolfgang Laun wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 09:04:54 -0000
XML Schema 1.1 has XPath evaluation and validation. Your constraint can be
easily expressed as the existence of at least one <sense> with at least one
child element for an <entry>.

-W

On 2 July 2017 at 10:01, Charles Muller acmuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I guess this might be a bit off-topic for an XSLT list, but in any case
> it's related to XPath.
>
> In my data (simplified here):
>
> <entry>
>   <sense>
>   <sense>
>   <sense>
> </entry>
>
> I want at least *one* of the <sense> nodes to contain <term>, <persName>,
> or <title>. But it only needs to be in one of them, thus <entry> needs at
> least one descendant from the above three tags.
>
> Is there a way of writing this into a DTD or schema?
>
> Chuck
>
>
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