Textual content in mixed content model

flockofcode · May 10th, 2011, 12:31 PM

hi

<complexType> definitions can be also used to create mixed content model, which allows us to include both text and element content within a single content model.

But as far as I can tell, if element has mixed content, then we're not able to specify one of the built-in simple types ( such as int ) for this element's textual content. Why is that?

Thank you

joefawcett · May 11th, 2011, 06:27 AM

Not sure I fully understand, if you specify that an element can contain mixed content (elements and text) then it can't be restricted to something like an int. For example what simple type would the following be inside myElement?

Code:

<myElement>The quick <b>brown</b> fox</myElement>

or even

Code:

<myElement><b>3</b><i>2</i></myElement>

As an aside mixed content in general is more difficult to process and is usually avoided for data style XML, it's more often found in document style XML.

flockofcode · May 11th, 2011, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joefawcett

Code:

<myElement><b>3</b><i>2</i></myElement>

I thought it would be useful if we would be able, for example, to restrict textual content inside myElement to just int, despite the added complexity of processing the document?!

Anyways, thank you for your help