Chapter 3 Building an XML model


Defining identity constraints

Identity constraints enable you to indicate that element values must be unique within their specified scope.

There are three kinds of identity constraints: unique, key and keyRef.

Each identity constraint has two specific attributes: selector and field.

In a schema, an identity constraint is declared with its corresponding tag: <unique>, <key> or <keyRef>.

Identity constraints are only available in a model targeted with XSD.

 


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