In your first choice set, if you reverse the 2 elements that will remove
the non-determinism - but only if the "externalid" element remains
declared as mandatory.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niels Peter Strandberg [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 10:53 AM
> To:
> Subject: [xml-dev] XML schema cos-nonambig problem
>
> This error message below is reported back from Xerces. The
> problem is the "major" element. How can I reconstruct my XML
> Schema so that I can avoid this error?
>
> cos-nonambig:
> "http://www.polopoly.com/polopoly/cm/app/xml":major and
> "http://www.polopoly.com/polopoly/cm/app/xml":major (or
> elements from their substitution group) violate "Unique
> Particle Attribution".
> During validation against this schema, ambiguity would be
> created for those two particles.
>
>
> <xs:complexType name="contentiddef">
> <xs:choice>
> <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
> <xs:element ref="x:major"/>
> <xs:element ref="x:externalid"/>
> </xs:choice>
> <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
> <xs:element ref="x:major"/>
> <xs:element ref="x:minor"/>
> <xs:element ref="x:version"/>
> </xs:choice>
> </xs:choice>
> </xs:complexType>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Niels Peter
>
>
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