Hello,

 

Thanks for your explanation.

The typographical errors are due to my email client, sigh...

 

What about the case where a sequence with minOccurs="1" and
maxOccurs="1" contains particles which all have minOccurs="0" in the
case where none of them appear in the XML instance? (see example:
below). What is the desired behavior? I suspect that the outer sequence
should also have minOccurs="0", in such an event. What do you think?

 

If this is a problem, should this be reported by a schema validator upon
processing of the schema? Should the schema be "automatically
corrected"?

 

Thanks.

 

Shlomo.

	 

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

	<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
targetNamespace="bar" xmlns="foo">

	            <xsd:element name="a">

	                        <xsd:complexType>

	                                    <xsd:sequence>

	                                                <xsd:sequence
minOccurs="0">

=09
<xsd:element name="b">

=09
<xsd:complexType/>

=09
</xsd:element>

	                                                </xsd:sequence>

	                                    </xsd:sequence>

	                        </xsd:complexType>

	            </xsd:element>

	</xsd:schema>  

	 

	Instance:

	 

	<a/>