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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> xml-dev
xml-dev
Re: [xml-dev] converting XML Schema to DTD
by John Cowan other posts by this author
Jan 28 2002 9:41PM messages near this date
RE: [xml-dev] converting XML Schema to DTD | RE: [xml-dev] xmlns:xml = "???"
Banerjee, Saurabh wrote:

>  Thanks John! Actually the question was what is the equivalent of the
>  following schema definition in DTD terms?


Ah.  DTDs have no equivalent of xs:all at all.   You either have
to tighten up the content model and require ordering, or loosen
it and allow multiple fnames and lnames.

My advice, if this is a real problem and not a mere test, would
be to go with commonName, sortName anyhow, because you cannot
be guaranteed to have just two parts to a name, nor which part is
appropriate to sort on:

<personnel> 
    <commonName> George W. Bush</commonName>
    <sortName> Bush, George W.</sortName>
</personnel> 

vs.

<personnel> 
    <commonName> Davíð Oddsson</commonName>
    <sortName> Davíð Oddsson</sortName>
</personnel> 


-- 
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I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_


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