comp.text.xml Google Group

Re: Distinguish between empty string and no children, in XPath 2?

2008-09-07T04:48:41Z

This is possible in XPath 2.0 if the schema has separate types for all cases
of element that must not have children-elements.
Then one can use the so called ElementTest, which is defined in the
following way:
ElementTest ::= "element" "(" (ElementNameOrWildcard (","
TypeName "?"?)?)? ")"

Re: Representing duplicated data in XML

2008-09-06T14:16:11Z

Sadly, SGML's CONREF (Content Reference) attribute type, which was
(among other things) for this exact type of situation, never made it
into XML.
///Peter

Re: Distinguish between empty string and no children, in XPath 2?

2008-09-05T12:21:21Z

Yes, I mistakenly left out the word "element".
Thanks, I'll try there.

Re: Distinguish between empty string and no children, in XPath 2?

2008-09-05T12:00:44Z

Even in the XSLT 2.0 data model the txt element has a child node, it is
a text child node. So your description of saying does not have "children
in the schema" is not very precise. Are you looking for elements which
have a simple type in the meaning of the W3C schema language, meaning
they have no child _elements_ and no attributes? I am not sure whether

Distinguish between empty string and no children, in XPath 2?

2008-09-05T11:30:44Z

Let's say we have a schema (maybe expressed in XML Schema, but not
necessarily so), that allows this instance document:
<top>
<txt>This is text</txt>
<books>
<book>Tarzan</book>
<book>Harry Potter</book>
</books>
</top>
The text /top/txt may be empty, and the element /top/books may have no

Re: restrict tag names to a pattern?

2008-09-04T15:47:47Z

No, that is not possible with the W3C XML schema language.

restrict tag names to a pattern?

2008-09-04T15:06:48Z

Does anyone know if an XSD can define tags that match a pattern? I
know I can setup restrictions on the values of a tag, but I want to
control the tag names themselves. For example, I would like this to
validate against my XSD (the child tags are required to start with
"var-" but can end in anything):

Re: XSD: How to nest elements and text

2008-09-04T10:40:47Z

See the mixed contents example in
[link]

Re: XSLT Processor in PHP5

2008-09-04T10:39:15Z

No, I don't think so. PHP 5 uses libxslt which is implemented in C and
not in Java. See [link] and
[link] and in particular
[link] as
that explains how to use PHP to write functions to be used in your XSLT

XSLT Processor in PHP5

2008-09-04T06:11:34Z

Hi all,
I hope this newsgroup is good for my question...
I usually perform xsl transformations using the Saxon processor.
I also usually call, into my xsl files, external java functions.
Now, I would like use the xslt processor provided by php5.
Do you know if the php processor support external java functions?

Re: Seek in huge xml-files

2008-09-03T18:51:09Z

We successfully completed the application.
javax.xml.stream.Location offers a method getCharacterOffset() which
does exactly what we needed.
This article was quite helpful:
Parsing XML documents partially with StAX
[link]
StAX is a very useful tool, when you don't have the memory to do it with

Re: XSD: How to nest elements and text

2008-09-03T12:25:51Z

See the mixed contents example in
[link]

XSD: How to nest elements and text

2008-09-03T11:27:28Z

I'd like to define a paragraph element p in XSD which contains text
(xs:string) and formatting elements i and b (italic and bold). A valid p
element could look like this:
This is bold and this italic.
I'd use something like this:
<xs:complexType name="p">
<xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">

XInclude Problem

2008-09-02T14:28:56Z

Greetings all,
I have a problem in that I have a series of xml documents as follows:-
<rubbishtags>
<mcs:document>
--- xml code here ----
</mcs:document>
I would like to use a seperate xml file to include the xml documents
(minus the rubbish tags as they mess up my formatting) and have been
experimenting with a page containing code as follows:-

Re: XML W3C Schema, check excistence of attribute depending on other attributes

2008-08-30T11:26:11Z

I don't think such restrictions can be modelled with the W3C XML schema
language.