Chapter 3 Building an XML model


Defining group particles

Group particles indicate how child elements are related with their parent element.

You can choose a group particle from the following list:

Tool Tooltip Description

Sequence Child elements must appear at least once in the order of their declaration

Choice Only one child element can be linked to the parent element

All Child elements can appear in any order and each of them once or not

In a schema, a group particle is declared with its corresponding tag: <sequence>, <choice> or <all>.

Group particles in XDR files

In a model targeted with the XML-Data Reduced language, group particles are declared through the order attribute of an <ElementType> tag:

Group particle Value of the order attribute in XDR
Sequence seq
Choice one
All many

Extract of an XDR file:


 


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