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Reputation: 23

XSD child elements optional/required based on the parent attribute name

I am working on a XSD validation code and I am trying to figure out how to validate a XML file that has 

<root>
    <elementA attribute1=ID>
    ...
    </elementA>
    <elementA attribute2=ID>
    ...
    </elementA>
</root>

and I want to make the XSD where it validates the same element based off the attribute name and makes some of the child element optional for attribute1 while required for attribute2.

Note that "..." is the same elements with some fields being optional for attribute1.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 563

Answers (1)

Michael Kay
Michael Kay

Reputation: 163595

In XSD 1.0 the type of an element can depend only on the element name, and not on its attributes. XSD 1.1 removes this restriction with a facility called "conditional type assignment". XSD 1.1 is currently implemented only in Xerces and Saxon.

Upvotes: 2

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