XML Schema --- <xs:choice maxOccurs=5>

[hooomee]

Given:

<xs:choice maxOccurs=5>
<xs:element name="Foo" type="bar" />
<xs:element name="Foo1" type="bar" />
<xs:element name="Foo2" type="bar" />
</xs:choice>

Is the choice made once and then the choosen element can occur 5 times,
or is the choice made once for each occurance?

I'm looking for the first behavior, choose once, then allow the choosen
element 5 times. I'm not sure how to get that..

 

[Stan Kitsis [MSFT]]

What you have will make five choices. What you want is (replace
min/maxOccurs with whatever boundaries you need):

<xs:choice>
<xs:element name="Foo" type="bar" minOccurs="5" maxOccurs="5"/>
<xs:element name="Foo1" type="bar" minOccurs="5" maxOccurs="5"/>
<xs:element name="Foo2" type="bar" minOccurs="5" maxOccurs="5"/>
</xs:choice>

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[Joe Kesselman]

Is the choice made once and then the choosen element can occur 5 times,
or is the choice made once for each occurance?

Simplest way to answer this sort of question is often to try it and see
what it does. (I think the answer is "choose five times", as you want it
to be, but I don't do enough with schemas to be certain and I'd try it
myself.)