Thanks Mike

So I can have a choice of two complexTypes, adressFullType and 
addressDeletedType?

Joe


>From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
>To: <joe@r...>,<xml-dev@l...>
>Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Schema definition of element with optional children
>Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 14:55:24 +0100
>
>You can't declare the type of the element to be conditional on one of its
>attributes, unless the attribute has the magic name xsi:type. Your only
>options are (a) to define a type that's sufficiently permissive to allow 
>all
>the options, and then do extra validation using some other technology, or
>(b) to use different element names for the two cases. Alternatively, in 
>this
>case you could use the magic xsi:nil attribute to mean status="deleted".
>
>Michael Kay
>http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Fawcett [mailto:joefawcett@h...]
> > Sent: 02 May 2006 14:48
> > To: xml-dev@l...
> > Subject: [xml-dev] Schema definition of element with optional children
> >
> > Dear All
> >
> > I'm struggling to find the best way to restrict an element
> > that holds address data.
> > If the address is to be deleted it will look like this:
> > <address recordStatus="deleted"/>
> >
> > if it's new or an update it will be along the lines of:
> >
> > <address recordStatus="inserted">
> >   <addressLine1></addressLine1>
> >   <addressLine2></addressLine2>
> >   <city></city>
> >   <postCode></postCode>
> >   <country></country>
> > </address>
> >
> > with various fields being optional, these are UK addresses only.
> >
> > What's the most efficient way to declare this using XSD only
> > as I believe I can't say, "if recordStatus = 'deleted' then..." etc?
> >
> > I believe I have to give a choice of two types but this seems tedious?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
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