xml schema to specify element type based on attribute value?

[James]

Hello,

I'm trying to create a schema for the following document..

<Foo>
<Content type="html">
... valid xhtml goes here ...
</Content>
<Content type="plain">
... xs:string value goes here ...
</Content>
</Foo>

So, basically I need to specify that the type of the Content element
will be a complex type with a sequence of xs:any when the value of the
type attribute on that element is "html" or it's an simple type of
xs:string when the value of the type attribute is "plain"..

Is this possible with xsd?

Thanks,

-jr

 

[Joseph Kesselman]

Is this possible with xsd?

Better solution with XSD is <html-content> versus <plain-content>.

 

[Joe Kesselman]

Is this possible with xsd?

Better solution with XSD is <html-content> versus <plain-content>.

Should have added: You could also do things with instance-document type
directives (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/#xsi_type). But I've
rarely seen that used well...