(Sorry to jump into this thread so late... I've been out of the office.)
I don't know of a way to enforce this kind of constraint using XSD
alone; I think we'd have to resort to something like Schematron, or
prose, for it.
Eve
CHIUSANO, Joseph wrote:
> Also, in the schema you can enforce that if none of the elements within
> a container appear (if they are all optional), then the container
> (wrapper) element will not appear. This would prevent empty container
> elements if we didn't want to have them.
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